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Flowering plants also known as angiosperms have large bright petals as a attracting device for insects and birds. Insects do not see in the visiblelight specturum like we do, instead they see in the ultraviolet spectrum. If you were to look at a flower in the ultra violet spectrum it would apear as though it were a target, with the center or emphasis on the anther were the pollen is produced and spread from. In this way, flowers can spread pollen much more efficiantly and therfore reporduce more effectively.
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∙ 6y agoThe brightly coloured petals are to entice a visit from a pollinated insect. But, it has been discovered that what we, humans, see when looking at a flower is not what visiting insects see. It seems that ultraviolet light changes the appearance of the flower head, guiding in approaching insects like the lights that mark the runway for an approaching aeroplane at an airport.
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∙ 11y agoTo attract the insects by color and smell
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∙ 14y agoThe colors help attrac t the bugs
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∙ 7y agoTo attract insects
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Why is it that some plants have brightly colored flowers and other do not?
to attract bugs to land on it. After landing on the flower pollen will stick to the bugs feet, so then when the bug lands on another flower, it will pollinate it. That is one way of how flowers reproduce sexually.
Flowers that are pollinated by the wind have smaller petals and sepals that are pollinated by insects or animals why are small petals and sepals an advantage to these flowers?
Answer 1: If a bloom has large petals and sepals, it's much harder to pollinate the flower. They would just get in the way. Answer 2: Petals and sepals are used to attract pollinators and give them a place to land. Wind pollinated plants don't need to attract pollinators or provide landing space for them. Thus, there is no use for large sepals and petals. .
How do petal pollinated?
The bright colors in petals attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies. Certain colors of petals only attract certain types of pollinators.
Are roses pollinated by bees?
Yes, roses are pollinated by bees. Bees are attracted to the colorful petals and fragrance of roses, and as they collect nectar from the flowers, they inadvertently transfer pollen from one flower to another, resulting in pollination.
What is the different in pollen at wind and insect pollination?
Insect pollinated is attractive and colourful, the former isn't Besides petal color the insect pollinated flowers also have insect attracting smell where as in wind pollinated flowers the petals are neither attractive nor scented.
Suppose you found 2 flowers growing next to each other in a field one had bright orange petals with strong sweet fragrance the other had no petals at all describe how each is normally pollinated?
The fragrant flower with the bright petals was probably pollinated by bees or other animals. The flowerless plant probably reproduces by spores being carried by the wind.
Why is it that some plants have brightly colored flowers and other do not?
to attract bugs to land on it. After landing on the flower pollen will stick to the bugs feet, so then when the bug lands on another flower, it will pollinate it. That is one way of how flowers reproduce sexually.
Flowers that are pollinated by the wind have smaller petals and sepals that are pollinated by insects or animals why are small petals and sepals an advantage to these flowers?
Answer 1: If a bloom has large petals and sepals, it's much harder to pollinate the flower. They would just get in the way. Answer 2: Petals and sepals are used to attract pollinators and give them a place to land. Wind pollinated plants don't need to attract pollinators or provide landing space for them. Thus, there is no use for large sepals and petals. .
How do petal pollinated?
The bright colors in petals attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies. Certain colors of petals only attract certain types of pollinators.
Can you describe the petals of a wind pollinated flowers small or large dull or colourful scented or not scented?
samll dull with no scented
Why do wild flowers have attractive petals and colors?
The purpose of bright colours in the flowers is to attract the insects that act as pollinators.
Are petal wind or insect pollinated?
Petals are both wind pollinated and insect pollinated, not one or the other. Insect pollinated petals are large and brightly colored while wind pollinated petals are small and brown or green in color.
What kind of flower are pollinated by insect?
* petals with either bright colors or colors able to be seen by an insect's eye. * male and female parts on separate flowers.
Why are some flowers are not?
They are not coloured because they undergo wind pollination unlike coloured flowers which have bright petals to attract insects for pollination.
How are petals on flowers different from flowers pollinated by animals?
Animals must find and eat food, whereas plants create their own food, using the sun's rays and water.
Why are some flowers not coloured?
They are not coloured because they undergo wind pollination unlike coloured flowers which have bright petals to attract insects for pollination.
Is a buttercup flower a wind or insect pollinated plant?
It's bright and showy, and even has little nectar ducts under its petals, so insect-pollinated. Wind-pollinated plants generally don't have flowers, or the flowers are very small and inconspicuous, like those of grass. Wind-pollinated plants also make far more pollen (try tapping a pine tree or reed in spring) because the wind does not take it directly to its destination, much of it will be lost. With insects there's a fair chance the little there is will reach another flower of the same species.
