EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Pollinating agents can be animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pollination occurs when birds, bees, bats, butterflies, moths, beetles, other animals, water, or the wind carries pollen from flower to flower or it is moved within flowers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most conifers and about 12% of the world’s flowering plants are wind-pollinated. Wind pollinated plants include grasses and their cultivated cousins, the cereal crops, many trees, the infamous allergenic ragweeds, and others. All release billions of pollen grains into the air so that a lucky few will hit their targets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wind pollination The wind may pick up pollen from a grass flower and scatter it all over the place. Only by chance will a little pollen land on another flower of the same species. To make up for this waste, wind-pollinated flowers produce a huge amount of pollen, as hay fever sufferers will know.

Detailed explanation-5: -Wind and insect pollination Wind-pollinated plants let their pollen blow in the wind and hope that their pollen grains reach another plant for pollination. Insect-pollinated plants use insects and other animals to carry their pollen grains to other plants.