AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Some plants are self-pollinating, while others may be fertilized by pollen carried by wind or water. Still, other flowers are pollinated by insects and animals-such as bees, wasps, moths, butterflies, birds, flies and small mammals, including bats.

Detailed explanation-2: -Birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, wasps, small mammals, and most importantly, bees are pollinators.

Detailed explanation-3: -We call animals or insects that transfer pollen from plant to plant “pollinators”. Pollination is usually the unintended consequence of an animal’s activity on a flower.

Detailed explanation-4: -Insects are the major pollinators of most plants, and insect pollinators include all families of bees and most families of aculeate wasps; ants; many families of flies; many lepidopterans (both butterflies and moths); and many families of beetles.

Detailed explanation-5: -A pollinator is the agent that causes that transfer. Pollinators range from physical agents, especially the wind (wind pollination is called anemophily), or biotic agents such as insects, birds, bats and other animals (pollination by insects is called entomophily, by birds ornithophily, by bats chiropterophily).