Pollination Types

Botany Lecture

Beetle Odor:

fruity smelling flowers

Beetle Color:

White or Greenish

Beetle Flower:

forms a ball

Bee Color:

vivid/showy colors

Bee Flowers:

distinct patterns (yellow and blue petals)

Fly Odor:

Foul

Fly Color:

Pale, purple, dark brown, violet

Butterflies Odor:

Usually scented

Butterfly Color:

showy pink to lavender

Butterfly Flower:

Landing platforms and long corolla tubes

Moth Odor:

Sweet scented but only after sunset

Moth Color:

Normally white or pale

Moth Flower:

Tubular corollas - lots of nectar

Bird Odor:

none

Bird Color:

Red, yellow

Bird Flower:

Long tubular corolla

Bird Other:

Produces lots of nectar

Bat Odor:

fermenting odor or musty

Bat Color:

dull

Bat Flower:

opens at night & usually hanging from stalks or trunk

Bat Other:

produces lots of nectar

Wind Odor:

none

Wind Color:

dull

Wind contains no

nectar

Wind Female Flowers:

exposed feathery stigma

Wind - exposed

anthers

Wind - lots of

pollen

Two types of decievers

sexual deception

food deception

Sexual Deception

flowers exhibit female insect female appearance

Food Decievers:

pretend to offer pollen/nectar without providing it