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The Carolina sphinx moth (Manduca sexta) is also known as the tobacco hornworm, hummingbird moth, six-spotted sphinx, and the tobacco fly. It is named the "tobacco hornworm" because the caterpillars feed on the tobacco plant (Nicotiana attenuata) and have a horn at the end of the abdomen; and the "six-spotted sphinx" because the adult has six pairs of yellow bands on its abdomen. These moths are important pollinators of deep-throated, night-blooming flowers. The moth extends its long proboscis (a hollow straw-like organ) up to 10 cm into the flower to collect nectar. As the moth removes its proboscis from the flower, pollen grains stick to it and become entrapped on the scales of the moth's body. As it nectars on other plants, it inadvertently deposits this pollen on other flowers and pollinates the plant.
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What are the adaptations of the corpse plant?
they smell like a corpse to attract insects, and the insects pollinate them.
Why do wood sorrel plants only open at night?
Because of moon and the night flying insects like moths pollinate them so they open at night only
What animal is a symbiotic relationship to a yucca?
It's a mutualistic relationship. The yucca plant (Mexico, Caribbean and Southern US) can't pollinate itself to grow more seeds. The yucca moth pollinates the plant and lays its eggs inside the plant. When the moth larvae hatch, they feed on the seeds of the yucca plant, but the plant only lets a certain number grow, so that they don't eat all the seeds. So by pollinating the plant, the moth develops food for its larvae and the plant as well as the moth can survive and continue. And the adult moths emerge from their underground cocoons exactly when the yucca plants are in flower, in early summer.
How do plants get pollinated at night?
By pollinators like bats and moths guided by smell of the flowers.
A reproductive process in which fertilization occurs within a single plant is?
self-pollinate
Do vascular plants pollinate?
Yes, vascular plants pollinate. In vascular plants , reproduction is assisted by animals such as bees, butterflies, moths which go from plant to plant and help with pollination.
Do butterflies and moths pollinate trees?
have no clue
Why the flower that blooms in the night are white?
So that the moths that pollinate them can see them.
What are some nocturnal animals that pollinate?
wasps, bees, moths and bats !
How does the Joshua tree survive in the desert?
certain types of moths pollinate it.
Why do the flowers on tobacco plants change in appearance?
Tobacco flowers that need moths to pollinate have evolved to have white flowers. Tobacco flowers that need hummingbirds to pollinate have evolved to be deep pink.
If the petals of a flower a absent how is the plant pollinate?
Plants have the ability to pollinate to without pedals. This is just because bees will pollinate as well as eat.
Can a pear tree pollinate with a plum tree?
Any plant can pollinate with any plant. Just so long as there's bees there. Bees accidentally get pollen from other plants on there feet and can ACCIDENTALLY cross-pollinate. So, yes, a pear CAN pollinate with a plum tree.
What are the adaptations of the corpse plant?
they smell like a corpse to attract insects, and the insects pollinate them.
Why do wood sorrel plants only open at night?
Because of moon and the night flying insects like moths pollinate them so they open at night only
What animal is a symbiotic relationship to a yucca?
It's a mutualistic relationship. The yucca plant (Mexico, Caribbean and Southern US) can't pollinate itself to grow more seeds. The yucca moth pollinates the plant and lays its eggs inside the plant. When the moth larvae hatch, they feed on the seeds of the yucca plant, but the plant only lets a certain number grow, so that they don't eat all the seeds. So by pollinating the plant, the moth develops food for its larvae and the plant as well as the moth can survive and continue. And the adult moths emerge from their underground cocoons exactly when the yucca plants are in flower, in early summer.
What do the flowers do for the plant part?
They attract insects to help pollinate the plant for reproduction
