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Why do bat-pollinated flowers need to produce large amounts of nectar?
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Why do flowers produce nectar instead of putting that energy into growth?
Nectar is produced by the flowers to attract honey bees and other insects for pollination.
How do flower produce nectar?
Flowers produce oxygen that they dont needas part of a process they use to make food.What is the name of this process
What vitamins are found in nectar?
Depending on the type of flower, nectar is an aqueous solution containing between 5% and 80% sugars and small amounts of nitrogenous compounds, minerals, organic acids, vitamins, and lipids. Of the vitamins, the only one in any appreciable amounts is ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and, as may be expected, this is in higher amounts in nectar from flowers of citrus plants.
How does the survival of honey badger depends on bees?
Bees use nectar from flowers to produce honey, the honey badger then feed on the honey that the bees produce.
What is the opposite of nectar?
Not sure what you mean by the opposite of nectar. Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers.
Where do bees get necter from?
Bees get their nectar from flowers. Flowers produce nectar to attract animals to pollinate them.
What is true about flowers?
Flowers provide nectar for bees to get and produce honey.
What does the flowers benefit the honey bees on?
The flowers carry nectar, so when the bees collect the nectar they eat it. That helps produce the honey. The nectar in the flowers is the bees food source. Without flowers, the bees would all die out.
Do all hummingbirds drink nectar?
Yes they do drink natural flower nectar, mainly from flowers that have co-evolved to provide them with the kind of sugar and amounts of nectar they prefer in exchange for pollination services. Hummingbird nectar flowers are usually red, orange, or bright pink, shaped like a tube or trumpet, and produce nectar that is weaker then that of insect-pollinated flowers and contains a high proportion of sucrose (the same as white table sugar).
Why do flowers produce nectar instead of putting that energy into growth?
Nectar is produced by the flowers to attract honey bees and other insects for pollination.
What are honeybees attracted to?
Flowers, trees and shrubs that produce pollen and/or nectar.
How do the bees do honey?
Bees collect nectar from flowers and then produce honey.
How do smell flowers?
1. Many flowers produce nectar to attract insects for pollination. This is produced from nectar glands in the flower head. 2. If you didn't smelled flowers then go and smell them.
When bees hummingbirds etc drink nectar from flowers is the nectar replenished?
Generally, yes. The flower will continue to produce nectar as long as it is fresh and there is sufficient water at the plant roots.
How much nectar to make 1 gram honey?
The amount of nectar to produce 1 gram of honey is equivalent to the total amount of nectar collected by bees from about 4000 flowers.
How do flower produce nectar?
Flowers produce oxygen that they dont needas part of a process they use to make food.What is the name of this process
Which flowers or trees are the main producers of the honey that you buy in stores?
Depends on what flowers are available, and important point, the flowers do not produce honey, but nectar, which the bees convert into honey.
