Entomophily
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Entomophily or insect pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen of plants, especially but not only of flowering plants, is distributed by insects. Flowers pollinated by insects typically adv
Bee pollinating a flower
Soldier beetle covered with pollen
Cyperus esculentus
The bee orchid mimics bees in appearance and scent, implying close coevolution of a species of flower and a species of insect.
Coevolution
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In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same speci
The pollinating wasp Dasyscolia ciliata in pseudocopulation with a flower of Ophrys speculum
Honey bee taking a reward of nectar and collecting pollen in its pollen baskets from white melilot flowers
Purple-throated carib feeding from and pollinating a flower
A fig exposing its many tiny matured, seed-bearing gynoecia. These are pollinated by the fig wasp, Blastophaga psenes. In the cultivated fig, there are also asexual varieties.