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Catnip-3
The plant I identified is catnip (Nepeta cataria). Catnip is native to Europe but is a naturalized wildflower throughout the United States.
This flower displays bilateral symmetry, and a slightly tubular flower, however the flower has a wide mouth and the reproductive parts extend beyond the tubular part of the flower, so it will be classified as not tubular. Based on the pollinator key, beetles, bee-like flies,carrion flies, or moths are not likely pollinators. The remaining possible pollination systems are bees, bats, and wind, with butterflies and birds being less likely.
A. A total five pollinators of four different types of visited this plant in a fifteen-minute period.
B. The visitors did not match my predictions for the flower.
C. The total number of pollinators per hour is 20.
D. This site has a higher than average number of pollinators.
E. Yes, pollinator service is probably a proxy for other kinds of ecosystem variables. If any other ecosystem variable such as soil quality or water filtration were to change, it could affect any number of other variables in the ecosystem, it could changing the composition of the site overall by providing conditions that different plant species prefer, and potentially altering reproductive or feeding sites for pollinators.
Photo: joyce-road.blogspot.com/2012/08/wildflower-catnip.html
Catnip-3
The plant I identified is catnip (Nepeta cataria). Catnip is native to Europe but is a naturalized wildflower throughout the United States.
This flower displays bilateral symmetry, and a slightly tubular flower, however the flower has a wide mouth and the reproductive parts extend beyond the tubular part of the flower, so it will be classified as not tubular. Based on the pollinator key, beetles, bee-like flies,carrion flies, or moths are not likely pollinators. The remaining possible pollination systems are bees, bats, and wind, with butterflies and birds being less likely.
A. A total five pollinators of four different types of visited this plant in a fifteen-minute period.
B. The visitors did not match my predictions for the flower.
C. The total number of pollinators per hour is 20.
D. This site has a higher than average number of pollinators.
E. Yes, pollinator service is probably a proxy for other kinds of ecosystem variables. If any other ecosystem variable such as soil quality or water filtration were to change, it could affect any number of other variables in the ecosystem, it could changing the composition of the site overall by providing conditions that different plant species prefer, and potentially altering reproductive or feeding sites for pollinators.
Photo: joyce-road.blogspot.com/2012/08/wildflower-catnip.html