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Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind. Pollinating agents are animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower. Pollination often occurs within a species. When pollination occurs between species it can produce hybrid offspring in nature and in plant breeding work.
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to affect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) resulting from cross pollination or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower) when self pollination occurs. Some flowers produce diaspores without fertilization (parthenocarpy). Flowers contain sporangia and are the site where gametophytes develop. Many flowers have evolved to be attractive to animals, so as to cause them to be vectors for the transfer of pollen. After fertilization, the ovary of the flower develops into fruit containing seeds.
In addition to facilitating the reproduction of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans to bring beauty to their environment, and also as objects of romance, ritual, religion, medicine and as a source of food.
Pollination 2010.
The first Bee 2010 on the first Crocus 2010.
Dudweiler, Saarland, Germany,
Feb 25, 2010
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THE AGE OF FLOWERING PLANTS
ANGIOSPERM means "seed borne in vessel," while GYMNOSPERM means "naked seed," a reference to the lack of protective structure enveloping the seed. One reason that flowering plants were able to diversify so dramatically and spread during the Cretaceous and Cenozoic, or modern, the era was the evolution of new structures and tissues such as the carpel, a womb-like vessel that encloses angiosperm seeds and endosperm, a placenta-like tissue that nourishes the young plant as it develop within the seed, Today, angiosperm dominate terrestrial life on the planet. At an estimated 422,000 species, they compose by far the largest group of plants. They grow in greater range of environments, exhibits a wider range of growth habits, and display more variation in form than any living group of plants. In size, angiosperm range from tiny duckweed to eucaplytuses more than 330 ft (100 m) tall. The explosion of angiosperm diversity has gone hand in hand with the proliferation of insect, birds, and other animals that pollinate their flowers, disperse their fruits and seeds, and eat their leaves.
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Bicolored Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens) on a Black-eyed Susan flower at the Dominion Arboretum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
I shot this in a wild flower garden near where live.
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I am told (see below) that this is a hoverfly (eristralis nemorum),
800asa f25(for max d o f), 640th of second.
Kohima, Nagaland. December 2011.
Nikon D5100+55-200 VR Nikkor
Exif data
Exposure 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 200 mm
ISO Speed 800
Exposure Bias 0 EV
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Amarylis stigma (pink) with pollen grains (yellow) adhering to sticky glands on its surface. Some pollen tubes (olive green) carrying genetic material can be seen on top of the stigma. Imaged in low vacuum without prior dehydration. Dynamic focus and long working distance used for depth of focus.
Courtesy of Paul Gunning
Image Details
Instrument used: Inspect Family
Magnification: 62x
Horizontal Field Width: 4.83 mm
Vacuum: 24 Pa
Voltage: 10kV
Spot: 2.5
Working Distance: 15.3 mm
Detector: LFD
Trees and plants do not move around. How will they populate their species without interacting with other members of their species. Simple solution: call in guests and make them carry your pollen to spread love in the air.
This little bee was pollinating this tiny flower, while getting nectar to fill its tummy and to take back to its hive. Note its hind legs and bottom of abdomen laden with yellow shaded pollen grains.
Such mutual coexistence and altruistic dependence is called as "Apiphily", which means bee-friendship or "Love-Through Bees". For these plants and flowers, Love is truly in the air, carried by these beautiful winged insects!