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Aloiampelos tenuior
Plant... (April–May). Aloiampelos tenuior flowers are visited by bees for their pollen and nectar and are the main ... do not visit the flowers and the main floral visitors are bees and butterflies, with honeybees being the most frequent, followed by solitary bees. Bees were found to carry more pollen than butterflies. ...
Sparaxis auriculata
Plant... arches over the stamens. The flowers are often visited by bees looking for nectar but since the flower produces little ... tightly around the style, it disappoints many of the bees that are constantly searching for nectar. However, even if some of the bees are tricked into visiting and don’t get the reward of ...
Salvia aurea
Plant... The flowers contain a lot of sweet nectar which attracts bees and moths, and acts as an essential food supply for ... This is because this sage has shifted its pollinator from bees to nectar-feeding birds, and these flowers are now ... can have flowers all year round, keeping the butterflies, bees, sunbirds and white-eyes captive in your garden. The ...
Diascia insignis
Plant... flowers produce oil and are pollinated by oil-collecting bees. Stamens are situated between two floral spurs forcing the bees to straddle the anthers to insert their forelegs into ... Using specially modified setae on their front legs, the bees mop up the oil secreted by the oil glands within the ...
Chironia krebsii
Plant... beautiful, bright pink flowers that are very attractive to bees, but this, and all species of Chironia , are pollinated by carpenter bees, Xylocopa caffra . The anthers have a single pore at the ... at a particular frequency. The vibration of carpenter bees wings causes the pollen to be ejected out of the pores ...
... of insects flitter and zoom around this shrub. Small bees, tiny wasps, various flies, large, shiny black carpenter bees and butterflies all visit the flower heads. They go ... outspread corolla lobes, if they touch them at all. (The bees were too heavy to perch there anyway, especially the ...
Pelargonium salmoneum
Plant... salmoneum is not known. Butterflies and various types of bees, including carpenter bees, honey bees and bumble bees, are some of the insects that can be ...
Platylophus trifoliatus
Plant... to re-sprout when the stems or branches get damaged. Honey bees and other insects are greatly attracted to the tree, as it produces copious nectar. The bees act as pollinators for these trees. Birds and wild pigs ... trifoliatus The nectar of this tree collected by bees, makes a delicious, much sought after honey. It is ...
Erica sparsa var. sparsa
Plant... Erica sparsa is most likely pollinated by insects, such as bees. The flowers are visited by honey bees at Kirstenbosch. Fynbos is a fire-prone vegetation and ...
Watsonia borbonica
Plant... Watsonia borbonica is pollinated by large, solitary bees, mainly of the family Apidae: subfamily Anthophorinae. The bees visit the flowers in the early morning, seeking nectar ... and at the same time the nectar levels rise. The bees visiting for the nectar transfer some of the pollen ...