Bees insect fly animals spider flowers. Worms can eat up to one third of their bodyweight in a day. Flower fly honeybee insect nectar pollen pollination bees insects insects and bugs flower honeybee insect invertebrate. Worms can move objects up to fifty times their own weight. Im dating myself here but when i attended grade school everything was either a plant or an animalthose were the only choices.
Many beneficial insects rely on plants for nectar and pollen or shelter. Other common predators of bees are kingbirds mockingbirds and dragonflies. Npsbrad sutton public domain some wasps do visit flowers. Wasps lack the body hairs that bees have to carry pollen and so are not as well equipped for carting pollen from flower to flower.
All about garden spiders. Plants commonly recommended to provide these resources. Conservation of natural enemies of insects predators and parasitoids and pollinators bees around the farm or garden can help suppress pests and increase crop yields. In fact all insects are animals and pretty much anything thats not a plant fungus bacterium virus or protist is an animal too.
Worms can live near the surface of the soil or even down to twelve feet below ground. Some earthworms may live as long as eight years. Its web can be 1 2 metres across and is built to catch insects such as flies wasps and butterflies. Other bees are lost to birds in flight see above.
Visiting flowers can be a dangerous occupation. Plants in the allium family such as the dramatic allium giganteum whose flower heads adorn stalks up to 6 feet tall are regarded as a broad spectrum natural insecticide. They repel numerous insects that plague vegetable gardens including slugs aphids carrot flies and cabbage worms. As an insect group on the whole they are generally thought to be less efficient pollinators than their bee cousins.
Many assassin bugs and crab spiders hide in flowers to capture unwary bees. Head over to braincraft to watch plants can learn tooand dont forget to subscribe.