● Majority of flowering plants use a `color{Violet}"range of animals"` as pollinating agents.
● Bees, butterflies, flies, beetles, wasps, ants, moths, birds (sunbirds and humming birds) and bats are the `color{Violet}"common pollinating agents"`.
● Among the animals, insects, `color{Violet}"particularly bees"` are the `color{Violet}"dominant biotic"` pollinating agents.
● Even `color{Violet}"larger animals"` such as some primates (lemurs), arboreal (tree-dwelling) rodents, or even reptiles (gecko lizard and garden lizard) have also been reported as `color{Violet}"pollinators in some species"`.
● Often flowers of animal pollinated plants are `color{Violet}"specifically adapted"` for a particular species of animal.
● Majority of insect-pollinated flowers are `color{Violet}"large"`, `color{Violet}"colourful"`, `color{Violet}"fragrant"` and `color{Violet}"rich in nectar"`.
● When the flowers are small, a number of flowers are `color{Violet}"clustered into an inflorescence"` to make them conspicuous.
● Animals are `color{Violet}"attracted"` to flowers by `color{Violet}"colour"` and/or `color{Violet}"fragrance."`
● The flowers pollinated by `color{Violet}"flies and beetles"` secrete `color{Violet}"foul odours"` to attract these animals.
● To sustain animal visits, the flowers have to provide `color{Violet}"rewards"` to the animals.
● `color{Violet}"Nectar and pollen grains"` are the usual floral rewards.
● For harvesting the reward(s) from the flower, the animal visitor `color{Violet}"comes in contact"` with the anthers and the stigma.
● The body of the animal gets a `color{Violet}"coating of pollen grains"`, which are `color{Violet}"generally sticky"` in animal pollinated flowers.
● When the animal carrying pollen on its body comes in `color{Violet}"contact with the stigma"`, it brings about pollination.
● In some species `color{Violet}"floral rewards"` are in providing `color{Violet}"safe places to lay eggs"`; an example is that of the tallest flower of `color{Violet}"Amorphophallus"` (the flower itself is about `color{Violet}"6 feet"` in height).
● A similar relationship exists between a species of `color{Violet}"moth and the plant Yucca"` where both species – moth and the plant – cannot complete their `color{Violet}"life cycles"` without each other.
● The moth deposits its `color{Violet}"eggs in the locule"` of the ovary and the flower, in turn, gets `color{Violet}"pollinated by the moth"`.
● The larvae of the moth `color{Violet}"come out of the eggs"` as the seeds start `color{Violet}"developing"`.
● Majority of flowering plants use a `color{Violet}"range of animals"` as pollinating agents.
● Bees, butterflies, flies, beetles, wasps, ants, moths, birds (sunbirds and humming birds) and bats are the `color{Violet}"common pollinating agents"`.
● Among the animals, insects, `color{Violet}"particularly bees"` are the `color{Violet}"dominant biotic"` pollinating agents.
● Even `color{Violet}"larger animals"` such as some primates (lemurs), arboreal (tree-dwelling) rodents, or even reptiles (gecko lizard and garden lizard) have also been reported as `color{Violet}"pollinators in some species"`.
● Often flowers of animal pollinated plants are `color{Violet}"specifically adapted"` for a particular species of animal.
● Majority of insect-pollinated flowers are `color{Violet}"large"`, `color{Violet}"colourful"`, `color{Violet}"fragrant"` and `color{Violet}"rich in nectar"`.
● When the flowers are small, a number of flowers are `color{Violet}"clustered into an inflorescence"` to make them conspicuous.
● Animals are `color{Violet}"attracted"` to flowers by `color{Violet}"colour"` and/or `color{Violet}"fragrance."`
● The flowers pollinated by `color{Violet}"flies and beetles"` secrete `color{Violet}"foul odours"` to attract these animals.
● To sustain animal visits, the flowers have to provide `color{Violet}"rewards"` to the animals.
● `color{Violet}"Nectar and pollen grains"` are the usual floral rewards.
● For harvesting the reward(s) from the flower, the animal visitor `color{Violet}"comes in contact"` with the anthers and the stigma.
● The body of the animal gets a `color{Violet}"coating of pollen grains"`, which are `color{Violet}"generally sticky"` in animal pollinated flowers.
● When the animal carrying pollen on its body comes in `color{Violet}"contact with the stigma"`, it brings about pollination.
● In some species `color{Violet}"floral rewards"` are in providing `color{Violet}"safe places to lay eggs"`; an example is that of the tallest flower of `color{Violet}"Amorphophallus"` (the flower itself is about `color{Violet}"6 feet"` in height).
● A similar relationship exists between a species of `color{Violet}"moth and the plant Yucca"` where both species – moth and the plant – cannot complete their `color{Violet}"life cycles"` without each other.
● The moth deposits its `color{Violet}"eggs in the locule"` of the ovary and the flower, in turn, gets `color{Violet}"pollinated by the moth"`.
● The larvae of the moth `color{Violet}"come out of the eggs"` as the seeds start `color{Violet}"developing"`.