You might want to know, why do bees, butterflies, and wasps go to flowers? Is it the color? The smell? Or is it something else? Well all of these are partly right! Insects like flowers for these reasons...
1. Bees and Wasps and Butterflies drink the sweet juice there. Does anyone know what it is called? That is right! It is called nectar! The nectar is very sweet. Do you know what else eats nectar? Hummingbirds! The hummingbirds love the nectar. The bees also use the nectar to make honey. Do you like honey? It comes from bees and flowers.
a. But, why do insects go to flowers? How many of you have seen all kinds of flowers! Can you tell me something about them? That is right they are colorful! Flowers come in many different shapes and sizes. The bright colors attract the insects to the flowers. If a bee likes one color better, then there are plenty of flowers for him to got to. While if Mr. Bee 2 likes a different color, he has plenty for him to go to.
b. The other reason that insects go to flowers, besides for food and the color and shape is... That is right! The smell. Flowers smell so good! Have you ever smelled a rose? Some people dry flowers and put them in places so that they can smell them. Most flowers smell good. Well some of them anyway. Have you ever heard of the Corps flower? It stinks so bad! It smells like a dead animal!
When the insects come, do they help the flower? Yes! The insects do help, by picking up pollen. Pollen is the yellow or orange powder that make us sneeze in the spring. Bees travel from flower to flower, collecting nectar (which is later converted to honey), and in the process they pick up pollen grains. The bee collects the pollen by rubbing against the anther. The pollen is collected on the hind legs, in dense hairs referred to as a pollen basket. As the bee flies from flower to flower, the pollen grains are transferred onto the stigma.This helps the flowers make seeds, and fruit trees make fruit.
Butterflies depend on flowering plants for nectar, which provides essential nutrients they need to survive. Additionally, butterflies lay their eggs on specific plant species, as their caterpillars rely on these plants as food sources. Therefore, the relationship between butterflies and flowering plants is mutually beneficial.
The coevolution of flowering plants and insects has led to a diverse array of adaptations and relationships between the two groups. Plants have evolved to attract specific pollinators and insects have coevolved to efficiently pollinate these plants, leading to the immense diversity we see today in both groups. This coevolutionary relationship has played a significant role in shaping the evolution and ecology of flowering plants and insects.
The producer-consumer model describes a feeding relationship where energy is transferred from the producer (plants) to the consumers (herbivores) in a linear fashion. Plants are the primary producers, herbivores consume plants, and energy flows up the food chain in a single line from producers to herbivores.
Conifers are a type of gymnosperm that reproduce through seeds contained in cones, while flowering plants are angiosperms that produce seeds within flowers. Conifers typically have needle-like or scale-like leaves, while flowering plants have a variety of leaf shapes. Conifers are mostly evergreen, while flowering plants can be either deciduous or evergreen.
Yes, that is correct. Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, are the most numerous group of seed-producing plants on Earth. They are characterized by the presence of flowers, which are reproductive structures that produce seeds enclosed within a fruit.
This is an example of a symbiotic relationship.
Flowering plants require pollinatio non-flowering plants do not.
Yes, lichens are non-flowering. They are a unique symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae or cyanobacteria, and they reproduce through spores or fragmentation, not through flowers and seeds like flowering plants.
Butterflies depend on flowering plants for nectar, which provides essential nutrients they need to survive. Additionally, butterflies lay their eggs on specific plant species, as their caterpillars rely on these plants as food sources. Therefore, the relationship between butterflies and flowering plants is mutually beneficial.
the main difference is its infloresence catkin or akin
You get both flowering plants and non-flowering plants; non-flowering are things like mosses, ferns and liverworts which produce spore, flowering plants produce seeds
There are two types of flowering plants. These two types of flowering plants are the perennials and the annual flowering plants.
flowering plants and non-flowering plants
the main difference is its infloresence catkin or akin
Angiosperms are flowering plants
One lot flowers the other lot don't.
Plants are classified as flowering(angiosperms) or non flowering(gymnosperms).