Sentence examples for primary pollinators from inspiring English sources

It turns out that my old friends the dung beetles, along with flesh flies and other carrion-loving insects, comprise the corpse flower's primary pollinators.

However, the two most common species of bee, the honeybee and a bumblebee, were not the primary pollinators within these habitats.

Bees are the primary pollinators of angiosperms throughout the world.

This species relies on pollinators for sexual reproduction and we show it has co-opted native South African honeybees as primary pollinators in its adopted country.

For example, in the case of A. acanthus, primary pollinators (e.g. bats) transfer a large amount of intra- and interspecific pollen to the stigma of the plant (Muchhala et al. 2009).

Plants and pollinating birds often coevolve, and in some cases a flower's primary pollinator is the only species capable of reaching its nectar.

"They're our primary pollinator.

The tequila tasting was a nod not only to Medellín's Mexicanness — he is a professor at the National Autonomous University, in Mexico City — but also to the film's protagonist, the lesser long-nosed bat, which ranges over much of Mexico and the American Southwest and is the primary pollinator of agave plants.

We apply our method to a test data set of floral dimension variation in the plant Penstemon virgatus, a member of a genus that has experienced dynamic floral adaptation that reflects repeated transitions in primary pollinator.

The 98 pesticides and metabolites detected in mixtures up to 214 ppm in bee pollen alone represents a remarkably high level for toxicants in the brood and adult food of this primary pollinator.

Alternatively, veratrole could be a key signal in the specific association of S. latifolia with its primary pollinator, Hadena bicruris.