Sentence examples for most likely pollinators from inspiring English sources
Based on anecdotal observations we speculate that sunbirds — specifically Nectarinia famosa and possibly Cinnyris afer — are the most likely pollinators of B. gregaria.
Most visitors were social bees (bumblebees and honeybees) and since these are considered the most likely pollinators, and were observed on the experimental plants, we focussed our analysis on this group.
Second, Wallace actually mentions Xanthopan (Macrosila) morganii, the species of moth that is now considered the most likely pollinator of A. sesquipedale.
Although cytonuclear or other reproductive incompatibilities may cause asymmetrical introgression (Landry et al. 2007; Conesa et al. 2008), our results are most consistent with a simple demographic model in which the more numerous (native in this case) species is the most likely pollinator (Burgess et al. 2005; Currat et al. 2008), as observed among hybridizing oaks (Lepais et al. 2009).
Our molecular phylogenies reveal that long-fringed petals evolved independently in Hodgsonia and Trichosanthes/Gymnopetalum, followed by two losses of corolla fringes in the latter clade, most likely associated with pollinator shifts.
Although beetles most likely were involved as pollinators when flowering plants as a group were born, their later performance in pollination has been disappointing.
These most likely represent a rare fifth pollinator species not sampled previously.
Columnar cacti growing in semidesert areas are among those most likely to be bat-pollinated; this may be because bats are able to travel considerable distances, so are effective pollinators of plants growing widely separated from one another.
Labellum patterns are commonly found within the Ophrys genus but differ largely in size, colour and complexity, and thus most likely in their function for flower-pollinator interaction.
This suggests that the virus found in pollen was most likely previously deposited on the flowers by pollinators infected with the virus.
