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Bees are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the...

cultivated. Insects and diseases. The insects which cause most damage in Florida orange groves are the white-fly (Aleyrodes citri), scale insects of different...

birds and mammals, and the flowers are important for many nectar-feeding insects. Hawthorns are also used as food plants by the larvae of a large number...

The flowers are produced in catkins in early spring, and pollinated by insects. It is dioecious, with male and female catkins on separate trees; the male...

زيره كوهی (zireh kuhi, meaning "wild cumin") in Persian. It is practically unknown outside these areas, and is not to be confused with the unrelated Nigella...

cultivation of the lime is confined to regions where frosts are practically unknown. In the dormant or winter season, the trees respond very readily to rising...

cultivated for its edible sweet fruit. Although its place of origin is unknown because of long cultivation, it probably originated from lands around the...

particularly in the South and in mining and lumber camps. It is practically unknown outside North America. Sweet corn is commonly grown for canneries under...

warmer climate than most other species. Their foliage is rarely attacked by insects, and turns to a bright or orange-yellow in fall. Their graceful habit, the...

account of the high protein content. Insects and diseases. The foliage of the various beans is rarely attacked by insects. A somewhat serious pest, however...

and chalk soils. The hermaphrodite cream-white flowers appear in May, are insect pollinated, and go on to produce scarlet berries, which are often eaten...

cordata) Tilia 'Moltkei' (hybrid, unknown origin) Tilia 'Orbicularis' (hybrid, unknown origin) Tilia 'Spectabilis' (hybrid, unknown origin) also Tilia sibirica...

across in the Japanese horse chestnut Aesculus turbinata). Flowers are showy, insect-pollinated, with four or five petals fused into a lobed corolla tube, arranged...

clustered inside the green "fruits", technically a synconium. Pollinating insects gain access to the flowers through an opening at the apex of the synconium...

Moisture and nutrients are gathered from the air (dust, decaying leaves and insect matter) through structures on the leaves called trichomes. Tillandsia species...

and Japan could have originated from the charlock, since that plant is unknown in those countries and the radish has been grown there for centuries. It...

species never fully described, the flowers and fruit of which are entirely unknown; and A. africana, an obscure species based by Linnaeus upon an American...

native plums are developed from wild species of the country, and they are unknown in cultivation (except in botanical or amateur collections) in any other...

its large fragrant flowers it is visited by numberless hummingbirds and insects. Owing to its rapid growth and dense foliage from the ground, the yellow...

as an example of the relation between flowering plants and pollinating insects. The shape of the flower and the position of the pollen-receiving and stigmatic...