Vibratory pollination

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a bumblebee pollinates bittersweet nightshade by vibratory pollination

The buzz pollination (in English buzz pollination ) is a special form of pollination exclusively by representatives of Real bees , particularly bumblebees , is practiced. The bees or bumblebees generate frequencies with their wing beats , which shake the pollen out of the anthers and dust the animals with the weakly sticky pollen.

Plants that spread their pollen in this way are for example the bug plants , stegolepis , xiphidium , cassia , bitter-sweet nightshade and some rainbow plant species .

literature

  • Claus-Peter Lieckfeld, Markus Imhoof: More Than Honey: About the life and survival of bees . orange-press, Freiburg 2013, ISBN 9783936086782 , page 206.
  • Theodor CH Cole (ed.), Ingrid Haußer-Siller (translation): Dictionary of Biology Dictionary of Biology: German / English English / German . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 9783642553288 , page 366.
  • Gerhard Wagenitz : Dictionary of botany. Morphology, anatomy, taxonomy, evolution. 2nd, expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937872-94-0 , p. 346.