100 Plants for Beekeepers Roberts Stuart
100 Plants for Beekeepers Roberts Stuart From around 130 million years ago flowering plants and insects have evolved together in something called co-evolution. brightly coloured or scented flowers,…
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100 Plants for Beekeepers Roberts Stuart
From around 130 million years ago flowering plants and insects have evolved together in something called co-evolution. brightly coloured or scented flowers, nectar, or appealing shapes and patterns. This has resulted in a number of different ways of attracting insects to the plants.Entomophilous plant species have frequently evolved mechanisms to make themselves more appealing to insects, e.g.
This is energetically costly, but in contrast, entomophilous plants have to bear the energetic costs of producing nectar.Butterflies and moths have hairy bodies and long proboscides which can probe deep into tubular flowers. Pollen grains of entomophilous plants are generally larger than the fine pollens or anemophilous (wind-pollinated) plants, which has to be produced in much larger quantities because such a high proportion is wasted. Butterflies mostly fly by day and are