EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, wasps, small mammals, and most importantly, bees are pollinators. They visit flowers to drink nectar or feed off of pollen and transport pollen grains as they move from spot to spot.

Detailed explanation-2: -Insect pollinators include bees, (honeybees, solitary species, bumblebees); pollen wasps (Masarinae); ants; a variety of flies including bee flies and hoverflies; lepidopterans, both butterflies and moths; and flower beetles.

Detailed explanation-3: -Flowering plants have evolved two pollination methods: 1) pollination without the involvement of organisms (abiotic), and 2) pollination mediated by animals (biotic). About 80% of all plant pollination is by animals. The remaining 20% of abiotically pollinated species is 98% by wind and 2% by water.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bees are vitally important pollinators, yet other insects, birds, and mammals also perform this service. Among the insects, there are pollinating moths, butterflies, flies, beetles and wasps. Mammal pollinators include bats, honey possums and lemurs.

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).