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Why do butterflies and moths visit flowers one after the other?
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∙ 13y ago
Butterflies and moths use their eyes to locate the flowers.
To visit it one after the other one of them must leave first before the other one occupies the flower.
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Why do butterflies visit flowers?
because butterflies loves flowers
Why do bees and butterflies and some mammals visit flowers?
Bees, butterflies and some mammals visit flowers to collect nectar and pollen.
What insect is believed to visit the visiting spirits?
butterflies,moths and lizards are believed to be visting spirits
Why do jasmine flowers bloom at night?
Flowers that bloom at night are trying to attract night flying insects and animals to pollinate them. Such flowers are usually pollinated by moths and (strangely enough) by bats.
What is a butterflies diet?
Tree Sap & rotting fruitMany Plants
Why do animals visit flowers?
Usually, the insect visits a flower to get the nectar, which is rich in sugars. Bees visit for the nectar and the pollen.To collect the nectar they produce. The pollen the flower has is attached to the body of the insect and as they go from flower to flower its causes pollination.
How does pollination occur in sunflower?
Butterflies, visit flowers that are orange, yellow, blue or pink. They like to have a large landing pad. Examples of butterfly flowers are zinnias, SUNFLOWERS, and hollyhocks. Thankyou........Hope you found what you wanted!
What do bees and other insects visit flowers?
Bees and other insects collect pollen from flowers and distribute them among other flowers so they can bloom and become somewhat "healthier".
Where do butterflies get their salt from?
Butterflies visit mud puddles for salts and minerals.
Are leopard moths rare?
Estimated populations of 11,000 moths are known to occur in the United States. Around the world, another 160,000 species of moths have been catalogued. A staggering 200,000 or more species of moths may exist, just waiting to be discovered. The number of moths far outnumbers the number of world's species of butterflies (17,500 species). Not all moths are a drab brown or white. Many moths come clothed in a myriad of colors and patterns, some brighter than those flashy butterflies, and just as interesting. Like butterflies, minute scales cover the wings of moth, making them slippery to the touch. If you have ever held or tried to catch a butterfly or moth, the "powder" or "dust" that comes off on your fingers is their scales. Some of the largest moths in the world belong to the hawk moth or Sphingid family within the order Lepidoptera (the animal order that includes butterflies and moths). These magnificent animals have long narrow wings and thick bodies. They are fast flyers and often highly aerobatic. Many species can hover in place. Some can briefly fly backwards or dart away. Hawk moths are experts at finding sweet-smelling flowers after dark. They are especially fond of Datura (Jimpson weeds), Mirabilis (Four O'clocks), and Peniocereus(Queen-of-the-night cactus) blossoms. These flowers are highly fragrant with long floral tubes concealing pools of thin but abundant nectar.Adult hawk moth (Manduca rustica) with its proboscis (tongue) fully extended. These moths are super tankers that fly from blossom to blossom. They are especially fond of the fragrant flowers of sacred Datura in the southwest deserts. Image by artist Joseph Scheer. Hawk moths have the world's longest tongues of any other moth or butterfly (some up to 14 inches long). Charles Darwin knew of the star orchids (Angraecum spp.) from Madagascar that had nectar spurs over a foot in length. Darwin was ridiculed by other scientists of his day for predicting that these orchids would be pollinated by hawk moths. After his death, hawk moths with tongues long enough to sip of the nectar produced by the star orchids were discovered on the island of Madagascar. The caterpillars (larvae) of hawk moths are the familiar green hornworms or tobacco worms, familiar to gardeners who plant tomatoes. Since some hawk moths are minor crop pests, aerial application of pesticides to protect crops sometimes affects their numbers. With the populations of all the sphinx moths affected by this agricultural practice there are fewer sphinx moths that pollinate rare plants, like the famous Queen-of-the-night cactus or the sacred Datura, which live in northern Mexico and along the border in the desert southwest. Moths pick up pollen on their legs and wings when they visit flowers and deposit pollen (accidentally) on subsequent floral visits. Two kinds of small moths (Yucca moths and the Senita cactus moth) actually pick up pollen and jam a pollen ball onto the stigmas of their flowers in order to assure food, the resulting immature seeds, for their caterpillars. They are some of the only insects to pollinate flowers "purposefully".
What flowers do animals like the best?
Birds visit various types of flowers, which helps with pollination. To determine which birds favor specific flowers, you must pick one type of bird to research.
Bees do not uaually visit flowers of what color?
Bees will visit flowers of any colour.
