Native Flowers That Attract Bees And Butterflies Shirt

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Best Flowers For Bees And Butterflies Pollinator

For a plant to use an animal to help spread its pollen, it must first attract the animal to its flowers. But what makes a flower attractive to pollinators? Its smell? Its color? Its taste? The answer depends on the pollinator in question.  Plants have coevolved with many different animals to create symbiotic relationships. Pollinating animals include bees, butterflies, beetles, moths, hummingbirds, and bats. In most cases, the plant offers food (nectar and/or pollen) in exchange for help spreading its genetic information.

Bees and butterflies are important pollinating insects. Honey bees are the best known pollinators due to the important role they play in pollinating numerous food crops. Many of the farming practices we have developed are dependent on managed honey bee hives.  Perhaps less known is that lots of plants, not just food crops, need pollinators and that other species of bees and butterflies play a crucial role in their pollination.

Unlike bees, butterflies can see the color red, so many of the flowers they are attracted to are colored bright red, pink, or purple. Similar to bees, butterflies can see light in the UV spectrum and lots of the flowers that attract butterflies have areas that reflect UV light to guide the butterfly to the nectar.

Butterflies are also lured to a flower by its fragrance. They use their feet to taste and need to land to feed. The flowers that often attract butterflies have larger landing pads near the source of nectar. A butterfly drinks nectar through its proboscis, a long strawlike tube that is part of its mouth. The nectar of flowers visited by butterflies is often deeply hidden where only butterfly proboscises can reach.

Because nectar is frequently butterflies’ only source of food, they tend to prefer nectar that is a mix of carbohydrates, vitamins, proteins, and minerals. As butterflies feed, they may also pick up pollen on their legs, mouth, and wings. When they travel to another flower, there is a chance the pollen will be transferred and reproduction will take place.

The decline in pollinators can be attributed to many different factors. Land development often greatly reduces or eliminates habitats needed by pollinators. Insecticides are highly toxic to bees and butterflies. Herbicides used by farmers and homeowners kill many of the flowering plants bees and butterflies depend on. Inadequate diets, loss of genetic diversity, and parasitic mites in managed honey bee colonies may also play a role in their decline.

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