Pollinator

Pollinator [ Botany - Ecology ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names


	Pollinator agents are all the various biotic or abiotic means used by plants in order to transfer pollen from the male stamens of a flower to the female anthers of a different flower ( pollination )

A pollinator causes plants to make fruit or seeds. They do this by moving pollen from one part of the flower of a plant to another part. This pollen then fertilizes the plant. Only fertilized plants can make fruit and seeds, most plants (but not all) won't reproduce or grow fruit without the unwillingly aid of pollinators
Floral peculiar characteristics associated with pollination by means of various pollinators are called pollination syndromes.

The abiotic pollinators agents are:

Wind (wind pollination or anemophily)
Water (water pollination or hydrophily)

The main biotic pollinators agents are:

Insect (Entomophily)
o Bees (Melittophily or Hymenopterophily.)
o Hawk moths and nocturnal Lepidoptera (Sphingophily & Phalaenophily)
o Beetles (Cantharophily or Carantherophily)
o Butterflies (Psychophily)
o Fly (Diptera) (Myophily)
o Carrion fly (Sapromyophily)
o Small bees (Micromelittophily)
o Ants (Myrmecophily)
o Carrion beetles (Necrocoleopterophily)
Animals ( zoophily)
o Birds and Hummingbird (Ornithophily)
o Bats (Cheiropterophily)
o Snails or slugs (Malacophily)
o Anthropophily. Pollinated by man.

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