Sentence examples for visiting insect from inspiring English sources

Parts of the pollinia stick to visiting insect pollinators, which then carry them to other flowers to facilitate cross-pollination.

As the visiting insect backs out of the flower, it brushes the rostellum, which is covered with sticky stigmatic liquid.

In the course of precopulatory and copulatory movements, the visiting insect acquires the pollen sacs (pollinia) of the orchid and subsequently transmits them to other blossoms.

Pollen is deposited from the ripe stamen on the style below the stigma before the flower opens and may be removed by a visiting insect, but self-pollination is impossible.

Despite the occurrence of successful insect pollination, the pollinator activity is easily influenced by environmental condition, and almost no visiting insect was observed on rainy or cloudy days in this study.

These pollinators were chosen because they are commercially available and represent four distinct flower visiting insect guilds which may be effective crop pollinators.

Intraspecific diversity of crops producing volatile organic compounds could harbor different assemblages of flower visiting insects, improving agricultural landscape heterogeneity and thus, natural regulation of crop pests.

Floral visiting insects were classified into pollinator, predator, parasite, herbivore and decomposer functional groups according to their habits and food preferences.

The translators become entangled on the legs of visiting insects so that the departing insect carries a pair of pollinia joined by the translator.

Their flowers have two stamens that are attached to the style, with the anthers near the stigma, and the whole complex triggers the explosive release of pollen on visiting insects.

These plants' pollen, Dr Cocucci observes in a paper in the New Phytologist, is packaged into structures called pollinaria, which attach themselves intact to visiting insects and are thus carried to other flowers.