What is Pollination?

This hornet is a professional pollinator of Penstemon, it is a flower that it is visiting, or rather sleeping here. Photo by Dr. Jim Cane of US Department of Agriculture, Logan, Utah, ARS Bi Biology and Systems Laboratory

Pollination is an act of moving pollen grains from the anther of the flower male to the female stigma. The goal of each organism (including plants) is to produce the next generation descendants. One way that plants produce offspring is to make seeds. Seed contains genetic information for producing new plants

Flowers are tools that plants use to make seeds. The basic part of the flower is shown below

Seeds are produced only when pollen moves between homogeneous flowers. Species are defined as individual populations that freely intersect each other, but due to geographic, reproductive or other disorders they do not cross with members of other species.

How do you put flowers on pollen? Flowers must rely on a career to move pollen. These vectors include animals visiting flowers such as wind, water, birds, insects, butterflies, bats. We call animals and insects to transfer pollen from plants to pollinators.

Pollination is often an unintended consequence of animal activity against flowers. Pollinators eat or collect proteins and other nutrients from pollen, or they absorb nectar from flowers as pollen adheres to the body of animals. When animals visit flowers again for the same reason, pollen falls on the stigma of the flowers and may result in successful breeding of flowers.

Pollen from the anther of flower 1 deposits on the stigma of the stigma and pollen can "reproduct", which means that "pollen tube" is formed on the sticky surface of the capitol and grows in the ovule of the plant It means to do.

Other pollination - plants need a carrier (pollen vector or wind) to send pollen to another flower of the same species

How is pollination? Is there a plant for mosquito pollination? Yes, many, but most of them are also pollinated by other insects like Golden Rod. Certain plants give priority to mosquito pollination. It means that other insects can pollinate them, but mosquitoes are the most common and most effective. Everything is a run, it is a cold warm run. An example is Platanthera obtusata, a blunt leaf run seen in the Arctic Circle, which is pollinated primarily by female Aedes and some moths. It attracts mosquitoes by emitting a faint smell that can be detected by mosquitoes but can be detected rather than our own nose that is very similar to the human body odor. The related Platanthera flowers are also pollinated by major and minor A. moths. Other Platanthera species are followed by primary pollination, or mosquitoes and other insects for predominantly self-pollination, requiring little insect help, and other orchid species have similar cases.

Pollination of insects is called insects. Insects are a type of plant pollination in which pollen is distributed by insects, especially bees, lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), flies and beetles. Bees pollinate many plant species that are not their natural habitat but are often inefficient pollinators of these plants; if they visit 10 different flower species, the pollen they carry Only one tenth may be the right species. As other bees tend to prefer one species, the most actual pollination

As many plant species rely on breeding for pollination, pollinators are very important to the environment. Bees depend on plant pollen and honey, but instead are the most common pollinator of plant species and about 90% of plants need animal pollination 7. Bees are used in agriculture for both pollination and production of honey Bees are estimated to be worth 400 million pounds per year 9. As many foods rely on pollination for breeding, plants are the major producer of many food webs, and the decline of pollinators can have a negative impact on the entire ecosystem. Therefore, due to the chain effect of the environment, decreasing the number of pollinators, especially bees, is a cause of concern. According to reports, the number of adult bees has been drastically reduced in some colonies, and this reduction is called colony collapse.