r/Pollinators • u/missingmyflipphone • 5h ago

Resting Bee

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I spotted this bee resting on a cold, drizzly morning. Does anyone know what kind of bee it is?

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Pollinator - an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower. This helps to bring about fertilization of the ovules in the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grains.

Insect pollinators include bees, (honey bees, solitary species, bumblebees); pollen wasps (Masarinae); ants; flies including bee flies and hoverflies; lepidopterans, both butterflies and moths; and flower beetles. Vertebrates, mainly bats and birds, but also some non-bat mammals (monkeys, lemurs, possums, rodents) and some lizards pollinate certain plants. Among the pollinating birds are hummingbirds, honeyeaters and sunbirds with long beaks; they pollinate a number of deep-throated flowers.

A pollinator is different from a pollenizer, a plant that is a source of pollen for the pollination process. Wikipedia: pollinator

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