Hummingbirds are very adept at sipping nectar from any or all of these plant groups. |
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The toilet is a mighty throne, and the tub is like a giant overturned turtle shell filled with nectar and ambrosia. |
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Pistillate flowers are usually smaller than perfect flowers and produce nectar with lower sugar concentration. |
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Insects such as bees facilitate pollination as they buzz from plant to plant while feeding on nectar or collecting pollen. |
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At night, after a long day of gathering nectar, they gather at the hive entrance and begin fanning by vigorously beating their wings. |
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Hangingflies usually occur in mesic habitats, including stream margins, slowly flying short distances and sometimes sipping nectar from blossoms. |
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Instead of the usual metallic zinc taste it was more like something sweet, like syrup or nectar. |
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Adults live on flower nectar and pollen and are especially fond of lantana and shepherd's needle. |
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The female mining bee stocks each cell with pollen and nectar she collects from flowers and then deposits an egg on the food mass. |
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The flowers do not bloom until nightfall, when they emit a mouse-like odour, and bats visit them for nectar and pollen. |
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Most columbine flowers have backward-projecting spurs that contain rich nectar that can only be reached by hummingbirds. |
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Just as the flies are unfaithful partners, some flowers are dishonest about signaling a nectar reward. |
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Hummingbirds don't have much sense of smell, so the scent of the herbs won't deter them from seeking nectar from their blossoms. |
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Many cooks assume that even a bottle of wine with the bouquet of paint-stripper will transform your lamb casserole into nectar. |
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Pollinators visit flowers in search of oils, floral fragrances, pollen or floral nectar. |
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At higher concentrations a large increase in nectar concentration results in only a small increase in visitation. |
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The number of flowers per inflorescence and the volume of nectar secreted per flower were not correlated. |
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Honeybee colonies rob honey from each other during periods of nectar dearth. |
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Because females were also prevented from nectar feeding, they were provided with water and honey. |
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One well-known example involves animals that feed on floral nectar but do not transfer pollen between flowers. |
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Also, the flowers provide nectar for bees, and this makes a delicious honey. |
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Flowers offering both nectar and pollen were, as expected, pollinated by diverse small insects, including small bees. |
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The dynamics of nectar secretion in an individual flower could be differentiated into four phases. |
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The foliage is delightful, and hummingbirds enjoy sipping nectar from its smaller flowers. |
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Optimal nectar concentrations have been predicted by a plethora of models that differ in detail and realism. |
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Honey is made from flower nectar which is collected by the honeybees in spring, summer, and early autumn. |
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Pollen weight and nectar concentration demonstrated a significant time trend. |
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Legend has it that gods and demons fought a great battle for a pitcher of nectar, a drink to ensure immortality. |
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The coffee was like nectar as Mahan took a hearty draught before sitting down behind his desk. |
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But creating this delicious nectar of the gods is not only scientific, but potentially life threatening. |
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The thirst that from the soul doth rise, doth ask a drink divine, but might I of Jove's nectar cup, I will not change for thine. |
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His mouth filled with the thick nectar, the life bringing substance that he always craved but rarely indulged in. |
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The industry fills a staggering 50 million-plus bottles of the amber nectar every year. |
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She yanked open the fridge door and took out bottle of peach nectar, setting it on the counter. |
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The restaurants also serve mango lasi, a popular Indian drink made with yogurt and mango nectar. |
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She put it down and grabbed the peach nectar, putting it back into the fridge and returning the vodka to the cabinet, removing the evidence. |
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With technological advancements, mangoes are processed into juice, nectar, squash, pulp, jam, and what not. |
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Aidan had set out a repast of beef stew and warm, crusty white bread along with peach nectar to drink. |
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Best known may be the Mango Melon Martini, a blend of vodka, Midori and mango nectar. |
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Many possess, at the base of the ovary, a disc-like nectary from which nectar is secreted via modified stomata. |
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The floral nectaries are hidden inside a globose corolla, and produce abundant nectar. |
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Hurricanes also commonly devastate populations of nectarivorous birds, probably because these birds are left with few nectar or fruit resources. |
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For nectarivorous birds, energy-expensive aggressive behavior may not be worthwhile for defending low nectar levels. |
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Native social bees visit only male inflorescences in search of pollen and nectar. |
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Indeed, until recently, it was generally believed that all members of the Neotropical genus Maxillaria lacked nectar. |
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As adults, some soldier beetle species feed on nectar and pollen, while others are predators that hunt for aphids and other soft-bodied insects. |
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Neuter flowers contained an average of 7.6 gl of nectar, and none were empty. |
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A butterfly rested on the petals of a brilliant red flower, sipping nectar peacefully on a bright summer day. |
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Orchids there use their purplish pink flowers and strong scent to dupe queen bumblebees into thinking the plants harbor nectar. |
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These rewards include pseudopollen, wax or a viscid, resinous material secreted by the labellum and floral nectar. |
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Unisexual flowers with three white petals produce numerous stamens or carpels and both present floral nectar. |
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The liquid blue nectar was flowing like water until we bounced over to Metronome. |
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A frog leaps off the bank into a shallow pond just as a hummingbird pauses for nectar from a flaming red salvia plant. |
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Its flowers have rounded heads with ragged clusters of petals, and provide a rich supply of nectar. |
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This constant movement causes water to evaporate, the nectar to thicken and the concentration of sugar to increase. |
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All erect proteas are pollinated by sugarbirds, which visit the flowers for their nectar. |
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There are certain minerals that some butterflies, such as swallowtails, sulfurs, and blues need that are not provided in a diet of nectar alone. |
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He photographed many species of colourful sunbirds hovering and sipping nectar. |
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During the bats' nocturnal searches for nectar, this feature provides an acoustic beacon to home in on. |
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The new homogenizer is developed for homogenization of non-abrasive products as pasteurised milk, yoghurt milk, juice, and nectar. |
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Honesty flowers early in the year and provides nectar for early butterflies such as the orange tip. |
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I was intrigued with how they gathered pollen and nectar from flowers to make honey. |
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Instead, they make honey from the nectar they drink from nectar-making flowers. |
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Honey ants store nectar in their bodies to sustain their colony during times of drought. |
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Native Himalayan cliff bees must now compete with European honeybees for nectar. |
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It is thought that honeybees can gather nectar and pollen from Australian plants without pollinating the plants. |
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Those trees attract small honeybirds, wild parakeets and more due to the nectar in their flowers. |
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Once the bee has made it home again, it barfs up the half-digested nectar and stores it in honeycombs. |
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These bright red rainforest honeycreepers have long, curved bills that are ideally suited for sipping nectar from Hawaiian lobelias. |
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After a Harris' checkerspot emerges from its chrysalis, it feeds on nectar from a wide variety of flowers. |
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Without the ability to hover, hummingbirds would not be able to obtain nectar from flowers. |
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Although the garden hosts a variety of nectar flowers, the butterflies concentrate when anise hyssop and Joe-pye weed bloom. |
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Using bright colors and sweet perfumes, many orchids falsely advertise a meal of pollen and nectar. |
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I planted tall perennial phlox and purple coneflowers behind the Jupiter's-beard to provide color and nectar in July and August. |
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And so I did, and we both took a short break to sip the amber nectar companionably. |
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To check whether visitors looked for nectar, a small piece of the corolla spur was cut in some flowers during the field observations. |
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The pollinating fly Philoliche aethiopica is unable to distinguish between the two, thus pollinating the orchid without a nectar reward. |
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Workers foraged for two food materials, nectar and prey, and for two building materials, water and wood pulp. |
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At about 3 weeks of age workers leave the hive as foragers who gather pollen and nectar and are exposed to a more variable environment. |
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A comparison of specific organs revealed a huge difference in ethyl oleate found in the crop, an organ used for nectar storage. |
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Nothing turns from effervescent nectar to curdled crud as fast and as completely as comedy. |
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Gulf fritillaries prefer the nectar of red and white flowers, such as Spanish needles and Lantana. |
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In this species, there is only one nectar gland per cyathium, and petal-like appendages are lacking. |
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On the underside of the head is the paired proboscis, which is used to suck nectar from flowers. |
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The glands of the cyathium usually produce nectar, and pollination is mainly zoophilous. |
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The report states that nectar glands occur only within the genus Eriocaulon. |
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Bees carry pollen, nectar, or both, as well as propolis or water, back to the hive. |
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By flowering early, the goat willow provides bees with both pollen and nectar when few other flowers are available. |
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The development of the tongue and reduced dentition are reminiscent of the nectar feeding bats in the family Phyllostomidae. |
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The eight lotus petals are the four mothers and four goddesses and the vase represents the vase containing the nectar of accomplishment. |
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Teasel provides nectar for bees and butterflies, and the seedheads supply seeds for goldfinches and crossbills. |
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Having extracted the sugary nectar from flowers, bees use enzymes in their saliva to split the sucrose into dextrose and fructose. |
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That explains our eucalypts and tea trees, with their large open flowers full of nectar. |
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The sunbird-asities have long downcurved bills that are well suited for extracting nectar from flowers. |
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God has equipped the hummingbird with a needle-like bill that penetrates deep into flowers to extract nectar. |
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Most biologists believe the famed waggle dance of the honeybee constitutes coded language that directs other bees to nectar and pollen. |
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Remarkably, however, nectar is absent from those species that produce pseudopollen. |
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Grape hyacinths, Pulmonaria, rock cress, azaleas, lilacs, wallflowers and pinks furnish nectar in early and mid-spring. |
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The real show takes place in the Festhallen, wherein the beer runs like water and tastes like the nectar of the gods. |
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The nectar is greatly concentrated and stored in wax cells, thousands of which form the honeycomb. |
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The white admiral feeds on flower nectar, the juice of overripe fruit and the sap of damaged trees. |
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The adults of most species feed on nectar and honeydew produced by aphids and other sucking insects like leafhoppers, whiteflies and mealybugs. |
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Ipomoea alba with longer flower tubes correspondingly had the highest mean total nectar volume per flower and nectary volume. |
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The flowers were picked and crushed, and the nectar shaken into water in bowls made out of wirras. |
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When there is an influx of nectar into the nest, the colony deploys more workers for foraging. |
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The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. |
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Forget the toy and just let Fluffy enjoy this colorful paper wrap saturated in pure catnip nectar. |
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Jean's honey is mainly produced from the nectar of clover, alfalfa and fireweed. |
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So they have a special drink called nectar, and they eat food which is ambrosia, which is immortal. |
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When taking nectar, hummingbirds contacted anthers, receiving pollen on their bill. |
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Adults of some Dolichopodinae have elongate mouthparts and are known to be anthophilous and feed on nectar. |
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As the bee's proboscis is inserted into the flower it pushes past the retrorse anthers to the nectar at the base of the tube. |
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Small flowers and red petals suggest pollination by small diptera or lepidoptera, but the flowers do not appear to produce nectar. |
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These tiny flowers offer nectar in a shallow median depression on the lip surface. |
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The main colour of the petals is violet, with distal parts being pale violet or white, and with dark violet ribs forming nectar guides. |
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However, as in nectar production, the costs of flower longevity may also be high. |
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Finally, nectar collects in the saccate nectary spur formed by the fusion of the margins of the labellum and the base of the column-foot. |
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Both the vibrant colors and the nectar supply of the heliotrope are excellent attractants for the butterfly. |
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They pierce the base of a flower to get at the nectar, and visit woodpecker and sapsucker holes for tree sap. |
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When nectar resources are scarce, hummingbirds will also feed on sap from holes in trees made by sapsuckers. |
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The brilliant orange, red flowers of the scarlet runnerbean supply nectar all summer long for hummingbirds and butterflies. |
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Suggests that intoxicating nectar may have inspired the mantic states of maenads and the Delphic oracle in ancient Greece. |
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The nectar is sucrose-dominant but also contains low concentrations of glucose, fructose, free amino acids and possibly terpenoids. |
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It can be eaten as is or made into a jelly, marmalade, nectar, squash, or sherbet. |
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Hot winds will also reduce nectar secretion, thereby reducing flower attractiveness. |
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With his wife supplying bacon sandwiches and hot dogs, and plenty of the amber nectar going down my thrapple, I was really enjoying myself. |
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In my euphoric state it tasted of nectar, crisp, cool, subtle, delicious. |
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Their leaves have nectaries, which produce nectar consumed by the ants. |
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All feed primarily on plant material, either fruit, nectar or pollen. |
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Granted, I still wear worn flannel jammies and drive a minivan, but now I remember to add the occasional shot of apricot nectar to my pulp-free juice. |
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Honeysuckle and quince have nectar rich flowers and fruits follow. |
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For example, some flowers that look white to us sport ultraviolet markings, showing butterflies exactly where to land and insert the proboscis for nectar. |
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This group is morphologically characterized by boat-shaped extrafloral nectar cups and a long inflorescence axis exhibiting a more racemose arrangement of the flowers. |
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If you live near a park or wooded area, it may provide habitat for Mourning Cloaks, admirals, and tiger swallowtails, who will foray into your yard for nectar. |
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Their diet consists of nectar, pollen, flowers, fruits and unripe grains. |
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In Africa there are the goliath beetles that can grow to a length of over five inches, where they noisily fly about looking for nectar and tree sap. |
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They also convert nectar into honey and fill the comb with it. |
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Also look for fig parrots and bumpy satinash which produces big white and golden flowers right down the trunk to ground level, providing nectar for pygmy possums at night. |
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Ambrosia, nectar, soma, these swill through our myths and histories. |
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They control everything from when animals sleep, wake, and are most alert, to when an insect emerges from its pupal case or a flower produces nectar. |
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The latter is an unidentified species of weevil that was observed feeding on nectar during two flowering seasons but carrying the four pollinia attached only once. |
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He flitted from one idea to another, a bee looking for nectar. |
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The nectar dribbled down their chins and dripped onto their chests. |
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The water turnover rates of hummingbirds feeding on dilute nectar are more similar to those of amphibious and aquatic organisms than to those of terrestrial vertebrates. |
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They find that birds are better able to discriminate differences in nectar concentrations at relatively low concentrations than at high concentrations. |
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Playing it was comparable to drinking the nectar of the gods. |
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Two varieties in particular are like the nectar of the gods to me. |
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During this period, the species feeds on the nectar and pollen of flowering saguaros and organ pipe cactus, contributing to the successful pollination of these succulents. |
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Create a living smorgasbord that includes plants with berries, foliage, fruit, nectar, nuts, pollen, sap, and seeds, so critters can dine on what they like. |
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They also eat sap from sapsucker holes or from holes they themselves have drilled and also some fruit, flower nectar, seeds, and insects, especially flying ants. |
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Being honeyeaters, black-eared miners will consume nectar, but most of their diet is insects that they find under the bark of mature mallee eucalypts. |
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But also, a small beetle was observed on a single occasion feeding on nectar from the underneath of the mesochile where a nectar drop is usually found. |
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The final result is nectar to many, myself included, although these whiskies also contain hints of iodine and seaweed and a taste of burnt wood that can disturb. |
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As our wine supply diminishes, so each mouthful becomes nectar. |
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Most pears grown today are either sold fresh or they're canned, dried, or processed into fruit cocktail, nectar, juice, baby food, or other familiar offerings. |
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There is a vestigial non-functional perigynous disc and nectar is secreted by glandular trichomes distributed along the internal surface of the corolla. |
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I'm used to Emily saying things like that, so I don't take any notice, just nod and pick up a bottle of peach nectar off the shelf, slosh it around, wrinkle my nose. |
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Frequently, he pauses to alight and hang beneath the drooping stem of a bluebell to sip nectar, his pale sulphurous wings contrasting splendidly with the deep blue flowers. |
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Propose a worthy toast, raise the goblets to your lips, bury your nose in the mint, inhale a deep breath of its fragrance and sip the nectar of the gods. |
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Yesterday there were two brilliant emerald sunbirds looking for nectar. |
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Agave nectar is a fruit sugar, which absorbs more slowly into the bloodstream and is suitable for diabetics, since it's much lower on the glycemic index. |
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Although many birds visit the flowers for nectar, purple sunbirds are the only ones that forage from the legitimate position between the standard and the keel. |
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Hummingbirds often pick up nectar mites when they visit flowers. |
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Then, as if succumbing to the charms of its nectar, the novel becomes more extravagant as it progresses. |
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The clearest examples are certain mosquito species in which the mouthparts of males are adapted for drinking nectar and those of females for imbibing blood. |
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Our one bird feeder, a bright red plastic affair filled with nectar for the hummingbirds, has so far attracted only ants. |
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Orchid pollinator needs for nectar can increase the pollination of rewardless orchids through pollinator visitation to facilitation plants. |
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Herbivores included consumers of pollen, nectar, or homopteran egesta, and predators included parasites. |
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To get the calorie count down to a waistline-friendly 10 calories, LOCA is sweetened with a proprietary blend of agave nectar and stevia. |
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Like hummingbirds, South American long-tongued bats hover at flowers and feed on sugar-rich nectar. |
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Only the ooaa still lives in the forests of Hawaii, feeding on insects and some nectar. |
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Different bat species have different diets including insects, nectar, pollen, fruit and even vertebrates. |
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They produce copious amounts of pollen and nectar that are attractive to insects. |
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All flowers produce nectar, the functionally female flowers producing it in greater volume and with a higher sugar content. |
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The nectar and copious dull yellow ochre pollen are collected by honeybees as food sources. |
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When flowering, however, proteas and ericas attract sunbirds, sugarbirds, and other species in search of nectar. |
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Both predatory and parasitoid insects need plenty of nectar and pollen to keep their energy up. |
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Tantalizing top notes of pink freesia kissed by the nectar of ruby-red pomegranate captivate the senses. |
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The Czech lands have been famous for centuries for producing some of the finest amber nectar in the world. |
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Squirrel-like tree shrews in the forests of northwest Borneo rest on the rims of pitcher plants and lick up nectar. |
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In the jimsonweed that she studies, hawkmoths deliver pollen in exchange for nectar, but also lay eggs on the plants. |
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Some of the most popular nectar plants used in butterfly gardens include butterfly bush and butterfly weed. |
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The adults nectar from flowers including fogfruit, salt marsh fleabane, blue mistflower, thistle, verbena, red clover, and sweet pepperbush. |
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The nectary is of the cuniculus type and produces an insufficient amount of nectar for quantification of total sugar content. |
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Syrphid files Often mistaken for bees, flies in this group visit wild flowers to get nectar. |
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The sweet liquid produced from bees regurgitating nectar must now be 100 percent natural. |
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Other recommended nectar plants include Caryopteris, Monarda, Joe Pye weed, asters, sedums, Echinacea, marigolds, lantana, verbenas and zinnia. |
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The fragrance uses orchids, night-blooming jasmine, green island palms and orange blossom nectar to envelop the skin in the scent. |
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Venus flytrap, worldwide This plant lures flies into its trap with pink leaves that ooze nectar. |
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Biodiversity of yeast mycoflora in nectar of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis and ixora coccinea flowers. |
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Fortunately, once in the beergarden with the good Doctor and a cold and frothy schooner of the amber nectar, everything fell into place. |
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Andrew Hurly says that his team has tested the birds on arrays of fake flowers, only half of which hold nectar. |
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The Eryngium, or Sea Holly, is again valuable for late summer flowering and also attracts nectar hunting insects. |
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The first is a traditional scroll showing creation according to the Santals, involving cows, divine nectar and ensuing humankind. |
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And in between comes the nectar of apples dipped in honey, sweet pomegranates and tzimmes. |
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Manuka honey is made from the nectar of Australian Leptospermum shrubs, which are known to have antibacterial properties. |
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The water of Lhasa is of all lands, But nectar like chang and arak abound only in our birthland. |
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From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind. |
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Upon arising early in the morning, he is to bathe, and cleanse himself in the pool of nectar. |
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Other food sources are the buds of young leaves, and flowers which provide nectar and pollen. |
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Gardeners should plant pots in their gardens or window ledges with nectar sources such as catmint, lavender, cranesbill, oregano and echinacea, he urged. |
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The flowers are cleistogamous, producing little pollen and no nectar, and attracting few insect visitors, and the petals fall off after only a few hours. |
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In the painting, a tiny happyface spider clings to a leaf in the foreground as honeycreepers and other birds seek nectar, insects, and berries amid the dense foliage. |
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Fear's fire to fervency, which makes love's sweet prove nectar. |
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Foxgloves, hellebores, wallflowers, red valerian, ice plant and Verbena bonariensis all produce loads of nectar, as do many winter-flowering heathers. |
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The Large Mason Bee is Britain's rarest solitary bee and is found only at two sites where it forages nectar from horseshoe vetch, bramble and bugle. |
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Making one is easy if you choose Mediterranean-style plants including lavender, euphorbias, cistus, santolina and phlomis, which provide plenty of nectar and pollen. |
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The bat, which sips nectar from flowers, has a long, pointy lower lip. |
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A survey of the assortment of insects whose activities are fueled by nectar and pollen of saw palmetto flowers might illuminate part of a larger ecological network. |
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Going by the common name of butterfly bush, its tiny flowers packed into long racemes are full of nectar, magnets for butterflies and other pollinating insects. |
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And with more than a passing interest in Scottish malt whiskies, we decided to take them to some of the famous distilleries that produce the nectar they loved. |
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Male crab spiders will sip nectar for a little energy boost. |
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Self-compatible plants that cannot autogamously self-pollinate highly rely on pollinators for reproduction, such nectar robbing behaviours may affect plant reproduction. |
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Bluebell flowers are rich in pollen and nectar, and are chiefly pollinated by bumblebees, although they are also visited by various other insects. |
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What do guys think when they come to a party dipped in Axe perfumes? As if girls have nothing to do but behave like honey bees to suck their nectar. Bluh! |
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In nature, dermestids can be found on old, dry carcasses, in bird and mammal nests, while the adults of some species visit flowers, where they feed on pollen and nectar. |
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Ivies are of major ecological importance for their nectar and fruit production, both produced at times of the year when few other nectar or fruit sources are available. |
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Since it is the Hindu belief that 1 day of the devatas is equal to 1 human year, the Kumbha Mela takes place every 12 years to celebrate the spilling of the nectar on earth. |
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Mad honey poisoning occurs after people consume honey contaminated with grayanotoxin, a chemical contained in nectar from the Rhododendron species ponticum and luteum. |
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And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth. |
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