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How to use nectar in a sentence

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Hummingbirds are very adept at sipping nectar from any or all of these plant groups.
The toilet is a mighty throne, and the tub is like a giant overturned turtle shell filled with nectar and ambrosia.
Pistillate flowers are usually smaller than perfect flowers and produce nectar with lower sugar concentration.
Insects such as bees facilitate pollination as they buzz from plant to plant while feeding on nectar or collecting pollen.
At night, after a long day of gathering nectar, they gather at the hive entrance and begin fanning by vigorously beating their wings.
Hangingflies usually occur in mesic habitats, including stream margins, slowly flying short distances and sometimes sipping nectar from blossoms.
Instead of the usual metallic zinc taste it was more like something sweet, like syrup or nectar.
Adults live on flower nectar and pollen and are especially fond of lantana and shepherd's needle.
The female mining bee stocks each cell with pollen and nectar she collects from flowers and then deposits an egg on the food mass.
The flowers do not bloom until nightfall, when they emit a mouse-like odour, and bats visit them for nectar and pollen.
Most columbine flowers have backward-projecting spurs that contain rich nectar that can only be reached by hummingbirds.
Just as the flies are unfaithful partners, some flowers are dishonest about signaling a nectar reward.
Hummingbirds don't have much sense of smell, so the scent of the herbs won't deter them from seeking nectar from their blossoms.
Many cooks assume that even a bottle of wine with the bouquet of paint-stripper will transform your lamb casserole into nectar.
Pollinators visit flowers in search of oils, floral fragrances, pollen or floral nectar.
At higher concentrations a large increase in nectar concentration results in only a small increase in visitation.
The number of flowers per inflorescence and the volume of nectar secreted per flower were not correlated.
Honeybee colonies rob honey from each other during periods of nectar dearth.
Because females were also prevented from nectar feeding, they were provided with water and honey.
One well-known example involves animals that feed on floral nectar but do not transfer pollen between flowers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I never saw the species there and took my one specimen in the abaca, where the bird was eating spiders, nectar, and pollen.
They are very partial to the nectar enclosed within the calyces of rhododendron flowers.
He may then, as he pushes down after nectar, leave some pollen upon the pistil, thus assisting in self-pollination.
Insect-fertilizable or entomophilous flowers are those which are sought by insects, for pollen or for nectar, or for both.
The cloud of Vaishnav enthusiasm melted in showers, their eyes dropped tears along with the nectar of kirtan.
This ape has eaten the peaches, has drunk the nectar and also swallowed the pills of life.
Bacchus supplied streams of nectar to its root, and vertumnus showered his choicest perfumes on its head.
To hungry and thirsty climbers black bread and vin ordinaire taste like nectar and ambrosia.
Even many of the saprophagous insects will sip nectar from these flowers.
As Spring, Mother of many-coloured birth, doth rear The young light-hearted world, so Autumn drains The nectar of the world's maturity.
These, as they devour nectar, dust themselves with the pollen near by.
Pea protein, chia seeds, agave nectar and coconut water all now sit accusingly on my kitchen counter.
Let us now suppose a little sweet juice or nectar to be excreted by the inner bases of the petals of a flower.
Some are filled with crystal-clear water, the nectar of the gods.
Some flower-bat tongues end in patches of hairlike protrusions that engorge with blood and extend outward into a nectar mop.
As he spoke, he took a double cup of nectar, and placed it in his mother's hand.
His carousals, too, were not of the most quiet kind, nor were his potations as mild as nectar.
Colony foraging in different species of stingless bees and the regulation of individual nectar foraging.
Adults nectar from flowers including blackberry, wild strawberry, Japanese honeysuckle, wild hyacinth, phlox, vervain, and red clover.
While the prickles keep animals from eating the plant, the thistle's beautiful lavender flowers attract butterflies with their nectar.
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