Our five-day pollinator unit investigates the various types of pollinators, explains what actually happens during pollination and more.

Cross-pollination: The pollen grain lands on a different flower to the one it originated from. As plants cannot move like animals they must adopt a different method of transferring these pollen ...

There are over 200,000 species of animal pollinators and the vast majority of these are insects (Berenbaum 2007). Insect pollinators include beetles, flies, ants, moths, butterflies, bumble bees ...

For example, the mutualistic interactions between flowering plants and their animal pollinators (Figure 1) are very different from interactions between acacia trees and the ants that inhabit and ...

Pollination by non-flying mammals is not unheard-of. Small marsupials, like sugar gliders, as well as more commonly known critters, like rats , are known to spread pollen through their movements.

Did you know that one-third of human crops rely on pollination? Or that honeybees are important to the pollination of potatoes? Many flowering plants depend on pollinators such as ants, bats, ...

Female bees are the most important pollinators in our region, because they collect pollen and nectar to feed their offspring. This means they visit more flowers per unit time and are more likely to ...

In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen. In turn, pollinators rely on flowers for food, including both nectar and pollen. If you’re a gardener ...