Eccentric Pollinating Mates for An Eccentric Flowering Plant

Eccentric Pollinating Mates for An Eccentric Flowering Plant

Say pollinators. What comes to mind? Is it sweet, furry bees or dainty, colourful butterflies? Perhaps graceful and shiny hummingbirds? Maybe bats, if you’re feeling risky. Truth is, there are plenty of other insects and vertebrates out there who also make a substantial contribution to plant sex, but rarely get any public credit for it. Indeed, some animals you’d never think of as pollinators can turn out to be irreplaceable allies in the reprod…