Why would an insect or animal willingly pollinate a flower?

For nature, we can understand it as the largest ecosystem in the world.

Including us humans are also one of the ingredients, there are a lot of elements in it, any living thing is a participant in it, and we will find that there are a lot of relationships between living things, for example, people will wonder why insects or animals are willing to pollinate flowers? This is actually a kind of mutual-benefit symbiosis, after all, the development of insects also needs these pollen.

First of all, the natural system is a very powerful system, there are many members in it, we can see our body, we can only see the organs, such as our hands and feet, etc., they all have their own meaning of existence functions, such as the hand can give us the function of grasping, and the eyes can let us see the outside world.

Scenes, and these organs are not independent, although they have their own unique functions, but they are related to each other, this is a relationship between biology, called mutual benefit and symbiosis, if it is a friend who has studied high school biology textbooks, it will definitely not be strange, and there is a parasitic relationship.

Insects and plants actually have a lot to do with each other, and we can often see them in plants and grasses.

I saw a lot of insects inside, which is a kind of mutually beneficial and symbiotic relationship, they all need each other's existence, to contribute to their own survival and development, after all, any organism whether it is an animal or a plant, including us humans is the same, the fundamental meaning of existence is to reproduce, after all, there is hope to live, so at this time life is not alone, are connected.

For example, bees are creatures, they pollinate flowers every day, in fact, they also have a huge value for their survival, they are all mutually needy existence, indispensable, otherwise it has a very big impact on their own race, not what is willing to pollinate flowers, but survival and development must do so.

Because some insects themselves need to suck the nutrients in the flower, they inadvertently get pollen on their feet in the process, and then fly to another flower to complete the process of spreading, so they benefit from each other in the process.

I think it's a natural instinct to do it, and they can get nectar.

I think that insects and animals are not primarily pollinating flowers, but their feeding behavior, and it is the feeding behavior that helps the pollen spread, which is a trait that insects are born with.

The color blooms colorful flowers to attract the attention of insects, and the purpose of pollination is achieved by insects touching pollen.

The unique fragrance of the scented flowers attracts insects to feed, and only a small part of them are fed when they come into contact with the pollen.

The unevenness of the petals causes some petite insects to be unable to leave the flowers for a while, and shuttle back and forth between them to complete the pollination process.

Many children know that bees collect nectar from blooming flowers and then bring the nectar back to their nests to make honey for their own food.

During the process of nectar collection, bees are prone to pollen on their feet, and when they fly to another flower, they carry pollen to other flowers to complete the pollination work. In this way, the flowers are pollinated and will bear fruit after a while, while the bees will get the nectar, and both plants and insects can benefit from the process of collecting nectar. In fact, this win-win mechanism has evolved gradually over a long period of time, and it is called coevolution.

In order to complete co-evolution, so that insects like bees can help pollinate them, plants have "come up" with many ways. For example, plants in tropical rainforests that are smaller, less flowering, scattered, and have a shorter flowering period have evolved a fixed time and flowering pattern, so that insects with a fixed flight path and flight time can find these flowers more easily and complete the pollination work.

In order to attract different insects to pollinate, some plants will evolve into different forms of flowers to meet the preferences of those insects, such as flies and moths, butterflies, etc., like to choose radially symmetrical flowers, bees West Lake choose radially symmetrical and left-right symmetrical flowers, moths like to choose flat or falling flowers, butterflies like upright flowers, beetles West Lake choose flowers. In this way, different flowers can attract different insects to pollinate them, and the efficiency of reproduction is greatly increased.

Not only that, but because some insects are different in their sensitivity to color, the color of the flowers of some plants has also evolved over a long period of time, which makes it easier for insects to spot them.

The pollen and nectar produced by plant flowers are rich in nutrients, which not only compensate for the energy expenditure of pollinating insects during pollination, but also have an inducing effect at close range, attracting insects to visit. The different scents that flowers have evolved can also act as a food signal for insects and attract insects to collect nectar.

Some flowers have no nectar, but they need insects to help pollinate, so they will use various "tricks" to get insects to work on a voluntary basis. For example, the orchid, a member of the orchid family, has dark spots on its lip flaps called "honey guides", as if to tell pollinators, "There is nectar here, please pollinate me". Although the orchid is hollow, because of the deception of the "honey guide" spot, the bees do not distinguish between the real and the fake, and the nectar is not eaten, but becomes a free pollinator.

It has a special smell, fragrant, smelly (such as foul-smelling konjac), which mainly depends on what pollinating insects like to smell;

Multiple nectars. The place where the nectar is stored determines the species that attracts insects. It can be eaten as soon as it is shallow and stretches out its mouth, so it attracts bees that chew and suck their mouthparts; The deep hiding is called "flower distance", which requires the insect to have long mouthparts, such as siphons.

Formula moth butterfly. If the amount of nectar is large, the pollinator must be large, and this flower is a bird-borne flower for bird pollination.

The flowers are large, prominent, and brightly colored. During the day, many of them are bright red, yellow, purple, orange and other colors, and at night they are mostly white (moths are attracted.

There are also some flowers that have evolved an incomparably complex insect pollination system in the long-term co-evolution with insects, such as aristolochia.

If you are interested, you can search on the Internet to see.

If the plant is very fragrant, it can attract insects to spread pollen, and insects will sprinkle a little pollen on the flowers when they fly away, so plants need insects to spread pollen when they bloom.

As long as the pollen can spread, you can spread it by poking your hands back and forth on the pollen of several flowers, not necessarily by insects that eat pollen.

Some plants are self-pollinating, some are cross-pollinating, and the pollination with insects you said is just one way to pollinate, such as wind, which can play a pollination function, I hope it will help you.

1.There are many insects that can help plants pollinate, mainly bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and moths, as well as yellow-spotted wasps, golden turtles, noctuidae moths, spotted butterflies, etc., and some beetles that live on honey, etc., all of which can pollinate.

2.In addition, there are some large birds that are able to pollinate.

3.If the animal is not pollinated, it must be pollinated by hand.

The interaction between insects and plants is multifaceted For pollinators and insect-borne plants, the most important relationship between them is: insects feed on the pollen of seed plants (pollinators of gymnosperms or nectar and other secretions of angiosperms), and at the same time, insects also complete the pollination of plants Seed plants must be pollinated before insemination, and pollen is transported to ovules (gymnosperms) or pistils (angiosperms) by external forces, and 85% of modern angiosperms are pollinated by insects Therefore, pollination plays a decisive role in the evolution and development of seed plants, and the interaction and co-evolution of pollinators and insect-borne plants has always been an important research topic and difficult problem in terrestrial ecosystems

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