Quotes About Pollination

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

Consider the farmer who sprays his fields with insecticide to kill the bugs that are damaging his crops. He kills thousands of harmless insects as well, including some that actually do good, such as bees that pollinate the flowers and give us honey. Creatures that feed on insects, especially birds, also get sick and die. In the end, because the poisonous chemicals get widely distributed, humans may become sick, too.

enhances the orchid's reproductive success—but not his own! The best known of these cheats is the bee orchid—the flower looks and feels like a female bee and even has the same pheromones.

It was twelve-year-old Edmond Albius, whose mother had worked on a vanilla plantation on Réunion (a small island off Madagascar), who revolutionized vanilla farming. The young Albius came up with a unique and innovative method of hand-pollination that is still being used to this day.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

Nevertheless, we do need insects, for they perform many useful functions. Without insects, for example, we would have no reliable way to spread certain diseases.

But they are also life giving. They impregnate flowers, and they give us our food supply. They work as a collective. Plus they are responsible for the line: "And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

Birds and insects are part of the ecosystem and help in pollination. I don't see any problem in having fruits and vegetables that birds want to eat, as opposed to the perfect shaped tomato that only you can eat and which, by the way, could also be cancerous.

Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.

Oh to be a pear tree—any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower." "Maybe, but honey is sweet , you know?

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

Most fruit trees need two of a kind for cross-pollination,

It takes a dozen bees to gather enough nectar to make a teaspoon of honey, each of them alighting on roughly 2,600 flowers and flying 850 miles back and forth. A worker bee weighs little more than a breath—around 100 milligrams—but she can carry half her body weight in nectar.

We need bees to survive.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

Le api originariamente si sono evolute dalle vespe circa 125 milioni di anni fa, smettendo di essere predatrici per diventare cercatrici di nettare e di polline.

Il loro valore economico globale per l'agricoltura è stato stimato in 217 miliardi di dollari nel 2008, in quanto circa un terzo di tutte le coltivazioni beneficia o dipende in maniera esclusiva dall'impollinazione da parte degli insetti, in particolare dalle api.

È il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.

E' il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

honey-hunting bees.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.