ENTOMOLOGY 2040 SECTION VII POLLINATION - HONEY BEES AND OTHERS |
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES OF SECTION
After completing this section students should be able to:
- Describe how the mutually beneficial relationships between insects and some plants may have developed.
- Describe the kinds of benefits that pollinating insects and their plant partners each get from the relationship.
- Explain how the color vision of honey bees may be related to the flowers they visit.
- Explain the differences between perfect and imperfect flowers and why both might require insect pollination.
- List the major groups of pollinators and explain which ones are most important, and why.
- Describe the plant and insect structural modifications that have evolved in the insect pollination relationship.
- Explain how solitary bees differ from their social relatives and why some are such effective pollinators.
- List the pollinator groups, other than Hymenoptera, and rank them in order of importance.