anthophilous

ADJECTIVE
  1. feeding on flowers
    some insects are anthophagous
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How To Use anthophilous In A Sentence

  • The elongate, loose inflorescence usually bears 4 10 brilliantly rose-coloured flowers which completely lack nectar or other food for anthophilous insects and thus act by deceit.
  • This foraging profile overlapped with those of all anthophilous insect families, all bee subgenera, and all species of nectarivorous birds that were encountered.
  • Adults of some Dolichopodinae have elongate mouthparts and are known to be anthophilous and feed on nectar.
  • At least seventy-one families of Diptera contain anthophilous species, and flies are pollinators of more than eleven hundred species.
  • However, anthophilous birds appeared to mostly forage higher in the trees and probably consumed more nectar from, and provided more pollination services to, flowers higher in the trees.
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