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Why would bees visit flowers which had no petals and no nectar?
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Bees will visit flowers, or things like hazel catkins purely for pollen. They also collect a resinous substance called propolis from tree buds and other plant sources like flows of sap. They use this as a sealant for small gaps in the hive.
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Can a mouse pollinate a plant?
It's very unlikely for a mouse to pollinate plants because mice are not nectar feeders.Some bats are nectar feedars, and hummingbirds are, and these would pollinate the flowers they visit.
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 bees like barberries?
As a rule no. They do visit blackberry flowers and collect pollen and nectar, and in doing so they pollinate the flowers. If they did not do this, you would not get many blackberries, and those you did get would be uneven and small. If a bee happens to find a damaged ripe blackberry it might lick up some of the juice, but that is about as much as you might expect. Pollen and nectar is what they are after.
What is the reason that the petals are so brightly colored?
Overall brightly colored flower petals assist in attracting insects, birds and small mammals to the flower for pollination. Coloured petals and nectar are normally used in conjunction - the petals as the attractant and the nectar as the "reward". Some petals which are not brightly coloured to humans, but reflect light in the Ultraviolet spectrum which some insects and birds can see.
Wind pollinated flowers do not make nectar why?
Nectar is produced by flowers to attract insects, bats or birds that will help to carry its pollen to other plants (and bring fresh pollen to it). If a plant is pollinated in the wind, then it doesn't need to spend the energy to make nectar.
What is a colourful part of a plant?
In most plants, this would be the flower; specifically, the petals.
Which animal would need to see color -an owl that hunts at night or a butterfly that drinks nectar from flowers during the day?
butterfly that drinks nectar
Why does nectar from flowers attract bees?
New evidence shows that bees see the world in a higher-frequency prism of light than humans & the flowers seem to "light up" as if under a black light for them. If you could see what they see, you would understand their excitability around the flowers & their ability to move directly toward the flowers from a great distance.
What beak shape would let a bird get nectar from long thin tubular flowers?
Long And Pointed
How many flowers must bees collect pollen from to make a one pound comb of honey?
[1] It has been estimated that a honey bee must visit 2 million flowers to make 0.5 kilogram, or 1.1 pound, of honey. [2] There are 1,000 grams in 1 kg. So a honey bee must visit 4,000 flowers to make 1 g.
What characteristics would insect pollinated flowers have?
Are bright in colour Produce sugary nectar Are large in size Have a scent
Why is basil a dicot?
It has branched vascular veins in its leaf petals, it's roots spread out more vastly than a monocots would, and it also has 8 flower petals when it flowers? Bon appétit
