The A-Bees-Cs
This famous, striped insect lives in hives and is known for making a sweet, sticky treat.
What is a honeybee?
These furry, flying mammals use echolocation at night and love to pollinate giant desert cacti and agave plants.
What are Bats?
This long, tube-like mouthpart uncoils like a party horn so butterflies and moths can drink nectar like a straw.
What is a proboscis?
This is the powdery, yellowish grain produced by flowers that must be moved to another flower to create seeds.
These tiny, hovering birds are intensely attracted to bright red, tubular flowers that hold lots of liquid.
What are Hummingbirds?
This is the title given to the single, large female bee that lays all the eggs for the entire colony.
What is a Queen Bee?
This insect looks like a butterfly but is mostly active at night, sporting feathery antennae to smell flowers in the dark.
What is a Moth?
Honeybees have special, hairy grooves on their hind legs called baskets, used to store and transport this substance.
What is Pollen?
This sweet, sugary liquid is made deep inside flowers specifically to reward animals for visiting them.
What is Nectar?
These insects need wide, flat flowers to use as a landing pad so they can safely rest their large, colorful wings while eating.
What are Butterflies
This fuzzy, chubby bee nests in the ground and uses a "buzz pollination" vibration to shake pollen loose.
What is a bumblebee?
Because it is dark outside, nocturnal flowers rarely use bright colors. Instead, they usually feature this pale color to reflect moonlight.
Many flowers feature hidden lines or patterns visible only under ultraviolet light, which act like runway markings called these.
What are nectar guides?
These bright, colorful, leaf-like parts of the flower are designed to catch the eye of passing insects and birds.
What are Petals?
Flies are often attracted to flowers that mimic dead animals by having a dark maroon color and smelling like this foul substance.
What is rotting meat?
Unlike honeybees, most native bees do not live in hives. Instead, they live alone and are called this type of bee.
What is a solitary bee?
To guide night-flying creatures through the darkness, nocturnal flowers emit a very strong version of this sensory feature.
What is a scent?
Hummingbirds have this physical feature uniquely adapted to be exceptionally long, thin, and needle-like to reach deep inside petals.
What is a beak? (or Bill)
This is the male, pollen-producing part of a flower, consisting of a long filament topped with an anther.
What is the Stamen
Because bees cannot easily see this primary color on the light spectrum, very few bee-pollinated flowers feature it.
What is Red?
Honeybees perform a special, figure-eight physical movement called this to tell their hive mates exactly where to find flowers.
What is the waggle dance?
This specific, giant white flower opens only at night and relies heavily on a specialized moth with a matching name to pollinate it.
What is the Yucca Flower?
Some plants, like orchids, bundle their pollen into sticky, glue-like packets called these, which stick to an insect's forehead or back.
What are Pollinia
This is the female part of the flower, located right in the center, where the pollen must land to fertilize the plant.
What is the Pistil?
Bees are highly attracted to flowers that are blue, purple, or yellow, and they especially love flowers that emit this clean, familiar type of scent.
What is Sweet?