How To Use Pollinator In A Sentence
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As well as pollinating the orchids, the bees are the chief pollinators of canopy trees.
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However, if flowering is asynchronous and the behaviour of individual pollinators does not follow a regular pattern within a plant, dichogamy might have little effect on reducing geitonogamy.
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The effectiveness of exclusion through pore size is relatively easy to demonstrate for biotic pollinators by direct observation.
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We're the first to cultivate this bee and the first to provide as much evidence of its potential as a red raspberry and blackberry pollinator," says Cane.
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At this stage, at least one theca is already opened, and pollinators are attracted to the flowers.
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Flowering herbs such as catmint, lavender and thyme or even flowers grown for cutting encourage pollinators and serve as food sources for beneficial insects.
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Pollinators visit flowers in search of oils, floral fragrances, pollen or floral nectar.
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Other cross-pollinators include Robert Wyatt, who shoots Prada ads and has a splashy editorial story, ‘Flash of the Titans,’ in the October issue of Harper's Bazaar.
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Insects serve as pollinators for food crops, nutritious sustenance for a range of birds and mammals, and decomposers of plant and animal products.
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The orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis belongs to a group of about 300 species that lure pollinators by mimicking a female insect.
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In addition, species with a small effect on ecosystem processes can have large effect if they affect the abundance of other species with large ecosystem effect (e.g. a seed disperser or pollinator might be essential for persistence of canopy species with greater ecosystem impacts).
Species influences upon ecosystem function
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The Indian balsam plant is an example of the incredible relationship between the pollinator and the plant.
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Though the terms are sometimes confused, a pollinator is different from a pollenizer, which is a plant that is a source of pollen for the pollination process.
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Someone offered bees or, at least, a national pollinator strategy.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, several genera lack a nectariferous disc, or if they possess a disc it is non-secretory; some of these simply mimic nectar-providing flowers and thus deceive the pollinator.
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Pollinators visit flowers in search of oils, floral fragrances, pollen or floral nectar.
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Flowers are visited by a diverse pollinator assemblage comprising Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.
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The asters are a wild group, but we love how they attract the pollinators and bloom like crazy.
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Apollo, a male selection of the same cross, is the recommended pollinator to produce the showiest berries on the female.
New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity
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It produces showy, tubular flowers in summer and is able to set seed if pollinators are available.
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Many are found in the tropical rainforests acting as decomposer, nutrient recycler, pollinator and also serving as a source of food for other animals and plants.
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It is nectarivorous, which means it feeds mostly on nectar and is an important pollinator in its tropical deciduous forest habitat.
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Secondary pollinators were diurnal hawk moths and butterflies.
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In Israel, vine cacti are cropped despite the absence of natural pollinators.
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Of all the types of bees, honeybees have several advantages as pollinators.
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Its principal pollinators are queens of the early-emerging bumble bee species Bombus bifarius and Bombus occidentalis.
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The terms "pollinator" and "pollenizer" are often confused: a pollinator is the agent that moves the pollen, whether it be bees, flies, bats, moths, or birds; a pollenizer is the plant that serves as the pollen source for other plants.
Pollination
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A single pollinator imports sufficient pollen into an individual fig to initiate a full complement of seeds.
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The plant epidermis is a multifunctional tissue playing important roles in water relations, defence and pollinator attraction.
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The extent of nectar production is apparently associated with pollinator size and there is variation in its sugar content and dilution.
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In his book on orchids he documents the elaborate frills and furbelows, gimmicks and traps, that lure and exploit insect pollinators, thereby ensuring cross-fertilization.
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Neonicotinoids are of particular concern because they have cumulative, sublethal effects on insect pollinators that correspond to CCD symptoms -- namely, neurobehavioral and immune system disruptions.
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Do seed predators, floral herbivores and pollinators prefer one sex over the other?
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A new study by Cambridge University has found that flowers take on different colours depending on the angle from which they are viewed†"plant petals use the property, known as iridescence, to attract pollinators.
The Times of India
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What exactly is a pollinator/bee/butterfly-friendly plant?
Times, Sunday Times
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Butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, and other pollinators will come for the banquet too.
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Even so, approximately one-third of orchid species have evolved pollination mechanisms whereby the pollinator receives no reward whatsoever.
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Plants are also described as keystone mutualists, which provide critical support to pollinators and dispersers.
Species influences upon ecosystem function
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The pollinators of Asclepias woodii and Sisyranthus trichostomus were chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniini) belonging to two species, Atrichelaphinis tigrina and Cyrtothyrea marginalis.
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Plants and their pollinators are often in coevolutionary mutualisms.
Pollination
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Furthermore, the gut contents, wing structures, and mouthpart morphologies of fossilized beetles and flies suggest that they acted as early pollinators.
Pollination
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Cluster pollinator plants together to reduce energy-sapping flight times between food stops.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, the hoverfly is a pollinator and beneficial insect.
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Because geitonogamy requires that individual pollinators visit more than one consecutive flower on a plant, I quantified the relation between the number of flowers open on a branch and the number visited sequentially by foraging bees.
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Leafcutter bee is the most efficient pollinator for alfalfa seed production.
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But the fact that an ancestor of an important modern pollinator existed back then could help scientists explain the rapid expansion of floral diversity in the early to mid-Cretaceous.
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In addition, there are some interdependent relationships between flower and pollinator sizes.
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However, successful geitonogamy likely occurs because flowers at different stages of development are present at any one time on a plant and pollinators appear to move pollen effectively between such flowers.
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The royal parks will also supply 'pollinator-friendly' plants from their wildflower meadows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Orchids there use their purplish pink flowers and strong scent to dupe queen bumblebees (the orchids' main pollinators in Sweden) into thinking the plants harbor nectar.
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Reduced competition for pollinators may be one advantage of early flowering, but for many of these spring ephemerals, time is the most pressing issue.
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Several insects, birds and mammals have been suggested or proven as likely pollinators, but some species appear to be self-pollinated or even cleistogamous.
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Pollinator activity can affect flower longevity in different ways.
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At least seventy-one families of Diptera contain anthophilous species, and flies are pollinators of more than eleven hundred species.
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Alternative methods, such as repeatedly spraying crops with pyrethroid insecticides, may be more harmful to pollinators.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is noteworthy that according to the studies of Illg, M. brasiliensis may be apomictic, although pollinator-dependent; i.e. apomixis is triggered by pollen-tube development.
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However, when pollinators were excluded from the flowers at night but not in the day, there was no effect on fruit set in female plants and even a slight increase in hermaphrodite plants.
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To the sundew, insects are prey rather than pollinators.
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If so, is it autogamous (capable of self-fertilization in the absence of pollinators)?
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A bee has a known monetary value as an agricultural pollinator.
Times, Sunday Times
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And if the poison is killing sugarbirds, it will kill sunbirds and any other pollinators such as insects.
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Just remember, this group 3 variety will need a compatible pollinator.
Times, Sunday Times
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Flower nectar is primarily comprised of sugars, which provide energy for the potential pollinators.
Bees Prefer Flowers with Caffeine | Impact Lab
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There are many cases where a single pollinator is responsible for pollinating many species of plants, for example long-tongued flies (Tabanidae and Nemestrinidae) are the exclusive pollinators of many genera of petaloid monocots as well as Pelargonium and Erica; a butterfly is the exclusive pollinator of a phylogenetically disparate group of red-flowered and autumn-flowering species; hopliine (monkey) beetle pollination has evolved convergently in many genera, etc.
Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
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There are good things in our pollinator strategy.
Times, Sunday Times
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For this reason, pollination can often fail and the seed not set, due to the fact that the specific pollinator has not visited the plant.
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If insects smaller than the pollinator become trapped they may crawl out without pollination occurring or, if larger than the pollinator, they may stay trapped until the labellum opens again.
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This was mainly due to mammals browsing only on the larger fruits from flowers that had been exposed to pollinators.
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Sepals and petals in the outer whorls are not sexual organs, but may serve to attract pollinators.
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Some, including the honey bee, are important pollinators essential for the propagation of plants.
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Other fragrant scents to human senses are most often those produced by flowers visited by pollinators.
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Next to occur would have been the evolution of nectaries, nectar-secreting structures, to lure the pollinators.
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As the pollinator pushes back the brush-like hairs, the valve opens releasing the pollen onto the back of the pollinator.
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Oil glands or nectaries are absent; thus, pollen is the only available floral resource for pollinators.
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The effectiveness of exclusion through pore size is relatively easy to demonstrate for biotic pollinators by direct observation.
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An internal connection exists among floral characters, the behavioral responses and structual modifications of the pollinator insects, pollination mechanism, and the fitness of entomophilous plants.
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The mites don't affect other bee pollinators, such as bumblebees and leaf-cutting bees.
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In contrast, pollinator observations demonstrated that hawk moths visited flowers with larger corollas, and that the probability of producing a fruit for natural pollination plants increased with corolla diameter.
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Plants pollinated by animals need to attract their pollinators in order to reproduce.
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This behaviour clearly indicates that the trichomes are somehow used during the pollinator's life cycle.
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Pomegranates are self-fruitful, so they do not need a pollinator.
Houston Chronicle
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A pollinator is the biotic agent (vector) that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or '' syngamy '' of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower by the male gamete from the pollen grain.
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Plants raised from these seeds were grown in a pollinator-free greenhouse and intercrossed, within populations, to obtain outcrossed plants for the crossing experiment.
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In his book on orchids he documents the elaborate frills and furbelows, gimmicks and traps, that lure and exploit insect pollinators, thereby ensuring cross-fertilization.
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Organic farmers use practices such as crop rotations, intercropping, strip cropping, establishing wildlife cover and providing habitat for beneficial organisms such as predatory insects, pollinators, birds, and bats.
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The species is the most important pollinator of ground fruits such as strawberries.
The Sun
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Instead, longer spurs only seem to be an advantage when long-tongued insects are the sole pollinators.
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Even accounting for native bee pollinators, honeybees still do most of the pollinating of fruits and vegetables in your garden.
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The presence of a self-incompatibility mechanism and its inability to reproduce vegetatively makes Trillium grandiflorum reproduction dependent on pollinator activity.
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What will happen when genetically heterogeneous plant populations are pollinated by new pollinators?
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It is re-emphasized, therefore, that conclusions regarding the identity of pollinators based on the multivariate analysis of floral traits should always be confirmed by field observations of actual pollinators.
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In all these species, the broad arcuate viscidium firmly embraces the pollinator scutellum when the insect leaves the flower.
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As pollinators removed pollen from the thecae, their walls collapsed and the anthers curled down gradually.
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Other studies have shown that widespread congeners might have an advantage over their rare congeners, by attracting more pollinators, having better competitive ability or having greater genetic diversity.
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Honeyeaters are the primary pollinators for native mistletoes and certain other nectar-producing plants.
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Although partially self-fertile, the crop is hugely improved by the presence of a pollinator.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reproductive isolation among sympatric Pedicularis species is influenced by the differences of pollinator behavior and floral form via ethological isolation and mechanical isolation.
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It was difficult to determine the duration of the staminate and pistillate phases in L. spicata because of pollinator activity.
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Pollination can be cross-pollination with a pollinator and an external pollenizer, self-pollenization with a pollinator, or self-pollination without any pollinator:
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The response variable was modelled as binomial (ratio between the abundance of each pollinator group and the overall pollinator abundance in each region).
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The rats, which are responsible for devastating the native pollinator populations, are attracted to the flowers for their nectar.
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Perhaps the reason is that social bees, which are largely opportunistic, dominate pollinator faunas in northern regions.
