What is the symbiotic relationship between a flowering plant and an insect?

Answer 1

The ants squeeze the aphids to extract a sweet tasting liquid and in return, that ants protect the aphids.

I do not believe the foregoing statement. I wonder whether the person who wrote it has ever seen anything of the kind happening. I have seen ants eating aphids, cutting them up and carrying them away, and I have seen ants stroking aphids with their antennae, which seemed to stimulate the aphids into giving up honeydew. However, I may have misinterpreted that stroking; possibly touching the aphid with the antenna was just to see whether there was any honeydew to pick up, and the aphid might have been about to produce honeydew anyway.

In any case, there certainly is a symbiotic (more precisely, mutualistic) relationship between many kinds of ants and many kinds of aphids. Generally speaking it takes the form of ants protecting aphids and removing their (unwanted) honeydew for their own purposes.

Answer 2

(mutualism)

The answer is that there isn't one. A symbiotic relationship is one of mutual benefit to both partners in the relationship. The milkweed derives no benefit from having it's juices sucked out by aphids. Aphids are just a parasite feeding off the milkweed.

Answer 3

Aphids exude a sweet liquid which is a good food source for the ants, who look after the aphids and 'milk' them with their antennae to get the honeydew. The ants protect the aphids from other predators, and will even herd them around, moving them from one colony to another.

The relationship is called mutualistic, as both species benefit. The ants get food, the aphids get protection.

Answer 4

The symbiotic relationship between a flowering plant and an insect could be one of mutualism. The plant provides nectar in the flower and the insect catches the pollen while drinking the nectar, then goes elsewhere and pollinates other flowers of the same species.

In other cases there is no symbiotic relationship. It depends on the flower and the insect.

Answer 5

It's not symbiotic; the monarch caterpillar defoliators the milkweed plant, which harms the plant and gives the insect protection. The adult monarch is not a significant pollinator of the milkweed flowers either, as compared to bees and other more common small butterflies. The milkweed plant would be much better off without the monarch, but the monarch cannot survive without the milkweed.

Answer 6

mutualistic

Mutualism is a type of symbiotic relationship. Symbiosis refers to an interdependent relationship between two organisms that benefits at least one of the organisms. In mutualism, both species benefit from the relationship. An example of mutualism is the relationship between a monarch butterfly and a milkweed plant. The butterfly lays its eggs on the plant and drinks the plant's nectar. In return, the butterfly pollinates the plant.

Answer 7

The aphid secretes tiny droplets of sugary stuff that the ants collect and eat, the ants protect the aphids from other insects that might eat them.

This is loosely analogous to the relationship between milk cows and humans.

Answer 8

Ants and Aphids have a symbiotic relationship. Ants protect aphids from predators and aphids supply ants with honeydew.

Answer 9

well the female plant gets horny for the male butterfly and they make plantfly babies.....