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How do insects help in the reproduction of plants?

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  1. Pollination is a mjor phenomenon during reproduction in flowering plants. Insects help greatly in pollination. In return they get honey as their food which is rich in vitamins and glucose.  


  2. Many plants reproduce by flowering.  The pollen from a flower is produced by the stamen which is the male part of the plant.  The ovary (female) part is at the base of a plant and the stamen is at the top.  The pollen from the stamen has to get to the ovary.  Insects are helpful in that they collect nector from a flower.  In so doing they get covered in pollen and they spread pollen from one flower to another.  When the female part is pollenated then it can form a seed which can turn into another plant.

  3. a bug eating nectar in a flower gets pollen on it, and gets the pollen  on the next flower  

  4. Insects such as bees, butterflies, & others are attracted to flowering plants to collects their nectar, a high energy food source.  Nectar is contained deep within the flower, and when the insect pokes their proboscis inside to suck the nectar, they inadvertently transfer pollen (the male gamete) from the stamen to the pistil which contains the female gamete.  Thus begins sexual reproduction of plants.

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