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During the process of collecting nectar, some pollens sticks to their legs as well from the flowers. While collecting more nectar from another flower, these pollens are left behind which helps in pollination.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoPsychophily: Pollination by butterflies. See: http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/botany/repro_flowers.html for other mechanisms for pollination.
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∙ 14y agobutterflies use their straw like toungs to suck up the nectar
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∙ 14y agoProbobly the same way as a bee.
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Do butterflies spread pollen to create other flowers?
Butterflies are not going to flowers specifically to pollinate ..... A butterfly is eating nectar from flowers. Pollination is simply a by-product of the butterfly eating nectar.
What does the Ulysses Butterfly eat?
The Julia caterpillars eat passion vine, and the butterflies pollinate flowers.
Which polliators pollinate a milkweed?
Insect pollinators that are attracted to sweet smelling flowers. This usually includes butterflies, daytime moths, and bees. I always see a lot of butterflies, in particular, around the milkweed in my neighborhood.
How do you use the word pollinate in a sentence?
Bees pollinate flowers.
How do the plants benefit from butterflies?
When butterflies drink nectar from a flower, they get pollen on themselves which is scattered onto flowers. Pollination is essential to flowers bearing seeds, and flowers are "designed" to distribute pollen through luring insects (bees, butterflies) with their nectar.
What do butterflies do for work?
pollinate flowers
Why do butterflies visit flowers?
because butterflies loves flowers
What can butterflies do that other animals can't?
Butterflies pollinate flowers and plants.
How are bees butterflies and some mammals important to flowers?
Bees, butterflies and some mammals pollinate flowers.
How does a flower benefit from a butterfly?
Butterflies going from one flower to another helps with pollination of flowers. Some flowers are not able to self pollinate and need assistance from insects like butterflies.
Do butterflies spread pollen to create other flowers?
Butterflies are not going to flowers specifically to pollinate ..... A butterfly is eating nectar from flowers. Pollination is simply a by-product of the butterfly eating nectar.
Do butterflies pollinate flowers?
Yes they do, they suck it up through a little straw on the front of their body.
Do cicadas pollinate flowers?
No, cicadas do not function as pollinators. As members of the True Bug order Hemiptera, the Cicada has piercing and sucking mouthparts. They primarially pierce the twigs of bushes and tress and then feed on the sap within. Since they are not attracted to flowers there is no way for them to intentionally or unintentionally pollinate anything.
How do butterflies affect the environment?
Butterflies affect the environment by pollinating flowers, fruit and other types of trees, which in turn affects the environment.
What adaptations would be best to assist a flowers pollination by butterflies?
Butterflies with hairy legs pick up more pollen. This adaptation would help a butterfly pollinate more flowers by carrying more pollen.
Can monarch butterflies pollinate flowers?
Any flying insect or bird aids in pollinating flowers. God made them this way, and they have no idea that this is what they are doing. It is just their way of life.
ARe butterflies helpful to human beings?
Indirectly, i suppose. Butterflys pollinate (the same as Bee's) flowers. Not to create honey but because of the polination flowers continue to grow, so if you like flowers, then the answer is yes.
