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unusual facts about nectar



Actinotia radiosa

Adults have been recorded feeding on flower nectar of various plants, including Vicia cracca, Salvia pratensis, Echium, Onobrychis and Thymus.

Aellopos fadus

They feed on nectar from various flowers, including Abelia species.

Angraecum

In the case of Angraecum sesquipedale, a species from Madagascar, on observing the 30 cm spur in the lip, Charles Darwin made the hypothesis that, since the nectar was at the bottom of the spur, a pollinator must exist with a tongue at least that long.

Aphrissa orbis

They feed on flower nectar of various flowers, including Ageratum conyzoides, Antigonon leptotus and Hibiscus species.

Blue-chinned Sapphire

Blue-chinned Sapphires feed on insects and nectar, mainly in trees but sometimes on vines or smaller plants like Heliconia.

Bombus erzurumensis

It collects nectar and pollen from flowering plants as, for example, Cephalaria sp.

Brahminy Starling

They also visit flowers for nectar, particularly Salmalia, Butea monosperma and Erythrina.

Celaena haworthii

Adults are active during the night and day and feed on flower nectar of Calluna vulgaris, Origanum vulgare and Molinia species.

Chrysops caecutiens

Adult males and females feed also on nectar and pollen of flowers (mainly Leucanthemum vulgare).

Colias philodice

Clouded Sulphurs nectar at flowers such as Milkweed (Asclepias sp.), Butterfly Bush (Buddleja sp.), Coneflower (Dracopis, Echinacea, and Rudbeckia), Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), Dandelion (Taraxacum sp.), Clover (Trifolium sp.), and Tall verbena (Verbena bonariensis) and many more.

Cucullia xeranthemi

The adults feed on the flower nectar of various flowers, including Silene, Carduus, Cirsium and Scabiosa species.

Culture of Yemen

Milk tea (after qat), black tea (with cardamom, clove, or mint), qishr (coffee husks), qahwa (coffee), karkadin (an infusion of dried hibiscus flowers), Naqe'e Al Zabib (cold raisin drink), and diba'a (squash nectar) are popular drinks from all over Yemen.

Diastictis ventralis

Adults have been recorded feeding on flower nectar of Centaurea jacea.

Erinnyis alope

They feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Asystasia gangetica.

Erinnyis ello

Adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) and Chinese violet (Asystasia gangetica).

Geckos of New Zealand

New Zealand geckos are omnivorous – their diet is primarily insectivorous in nature – flies, spiders, moths etc., but they will supplement it with fruit (i.e.: from mahoe) and nectar (i.e.: from flax flowers) when it is available.

Golden Starfrontlet

They take nectar by hovering and reaching up with their bills into long-tubed flowers such as Centropogon, Fuchsia, and plants of the heath family.

Green-breasted Mango

Favorite nectar sources include the flowers of large trees such as Inga, Erythrina, and Ceiba or kapok.

Hemaris gracilis

They feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Pontederia cordata, Rubus species, Taraxacum officinale, Hieracium aurantiacum, and Phlox species.

Lasionycta impingens

It feeds on nectar of a Penstemon species on the Beartooth Plateau, Montana, as well as on Mertensia paniculata and a Senecio, likely Senecio lugens at Pink Mountain, British Columbia.

Leptophobia eleone

Adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Lantana species.

Macaranga

Macaranga species often form symbioses with ant (Formicidae) species (particularly Crematogaster ants of the subgenus Decacrema) because they have hollow stems that can serve as nesting space and occasionally provide nectar.

Madoryx pseudothyreus

Adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Asystasia gangetica.

Marpesia eleuchea

Adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Tournefortia, Cordia, Lantana, and Eupatorium species.

Mesotype verberata

Adults feed on the nectar of a number of flowers, including those of Solidago virgaurea, Aconitum napellus and Campanula rotundifolia.

Ministrymon azia

Adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Leucaena leucocephala, Melilotus alba, Cynoglossum amabile, Bidens alba, Turnera ulmifolia, Mimosa pudica and Acacia species.

Mucuna holtonii

Bats are able to detect if the flowers have nectar using echolocation.

Pachylia ficus

The adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Asystasia gangetica.

Phoebis neocypris

They feed on flower nectar of various flowers, including Lantana and Impatiens species.

Pilodeudorix caerulea

Adults have been recorded feeding on nectar of various flowers, especially those of Tridax species and Eupatorium odorata.

Proserpinus clarkiae

They feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Salvia columbariae, Asclepias cordifolia, Ribes aureum, Dichelostemma capitatum, Clarkia, Vicia, Cirsium and Stachys species.

Protea Canary

It feeds on seeds, (particularly those of proteas, Othonna amplericaules and Rhus anarcardia) and some fruit, nectar and shoots.

Protea neriifolia

The species is pollinated by various insects including protea beetles, scarab beetles and also birds which are attracted by the insects and nectar.

Satyrium californica

Adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Eriogonum and Asclepias species.

Strymon bazochii

Adults feed on nectar from various flowers, including Bidens alba, Lantana species and Stachytarpheta jamaicensis.

Tasmanian pygmy possum

Tasmanian pygmy possums are omnivorous, feeding on insects, spiders, small lizards, nectar, and pollen, the latter two primarily coming from Banksia and eucalypts.

Techniques of Knowledge

According to the Dutch religious scholar and Christian minister Reender Kranenborg and the American religious scholar J. Gordon Melton, these techniques are secret and were originally called "Light", "Sound", "Name" or "Word" and "Nectar" but Maharaji now refers to them as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th techniques.

Tenthredo notha

They can be encountered from June through September feeding on small insects and on nectar and pollen of flowers (especially on Apiaceae species).

Tenthredo temula

They can be encountered from May through late summer feeding on small insects and on nectar and pollen of flowers from various plants (mainly Apiaceae family, as Anthriscus sylvestris, Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium), but also on Rubus fruticosus and Crataegus monogyna.

Tremble dance

The tremble dance was first described by Karl von Frisch in the 1920s (who was also first to describe the waggle dance), but no light was shed on its function until 1993 when Wolfgang Kirschner discovered that, when performed, the dance stopped nearby workers from flying to gather more nectar.

Volucella bombylans

The adults feed on nectar and pollen (mainly on Valeriana officinalis, Geranium sylvaticum, Centaurea jacea, Cirsium palustre, Epilobium angustifolium, etc), with preference for blue flowers.

White-throated Mountaingem

The food of this species is nectar, taken from a variety of small flowers, including epiphytic Ericaceae.

Yellow Honeyeater

The Yellow Honeyeater hovers in front of the spectacular flowers of the wild Bottlebrush Orchid or Coelandria smillieae which appear in northern Queensland between August and November, while feeding upon the nectar and pollinating the flowers.

Yellow-bellied glider

The yellow-bellied glider's diet consists of nectar, honeydew, insects, pollen and a wide spread of tree sap including different Eucalyptus sap, Corymbia sap, some Angophora sap, and Lophostemon sap.

Zygaena lonicerae

They suck nectar of the preferred blue violet flowers, such as on field scabious (Knautia arvensis), Dove Pincushion Flower (Scabiosa columbaria), meadow knapweed (Centaurea jacea), panicle knapweed (Centaurea stoebe), creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense), Bulbous thistle (Cirsium tuberosum) and ring thistle (Carduus).


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