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Ep. 434 - Moths are Important Pollinators

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The Relationship Between Visitation and Pollination

A complimentary pollinator situation would potentially, you know, kind of parses out which flowers are being visited. If a bee visits a flower, it's going to rob that plant of the pollen and then a moth would come in. It just wants the nectar. And so you end up getting no pollination because bee visited first. Whereas, if the reverse had happened, the moth would probably have taken less pollen, maybe pollinated something else, taken the nectar drink for sure. The bee comes in, takes the pollen, you still get pollination because the timeline of visitation. So these are the types of incredible interactions that are really what your teeth in the park when you really

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