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entomophilous

[‚ent·ə′mäf·ə·ləs]
(ecology)
Pollinated by insects.
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1% (N = 22) were ornithophilous, 29% (N = 15) were mellitophilous, 14% (N = 7) were entomophilous, four species (8%) presented intermediate attributes between chiropterophily and ornithophily syndrome, one (2%) species was chiropterophilous and one (2%) species was sphingophilous (Appendix 1).
Flowers visited by hummingbirds in the open habitats of the southeastern brazilian mountaintops: species composition and seasonality/Flores visitadas por beija-flores em habitats abertos de montanhas do sudeste do Brasil: sazonalidade e composicao de especies
Although recognized as vital to the reproductive fitness of plants, surprisingly few studies of the reproductive biology of rare entomophilous species (Kevan, 1975; Buchmann and Nabhan, 1996; Kearns and Inouye, 1997; Spira, 2001) and even fewer comparative studies involving pollen limitation as a cause of rarity have been conducted (Sutherland, 1986; Burd, 1994; Larson and Barrett, 2000).
Reproductive ecology of Trillium recurvatum (trilliaceae) in Wisconsin
The pollination modes are: An anemophilous, En entomophilous, Hi hydrophilous.
Invasiveness of alien vascular plants in six arid zones of Europe, Africa and America
Relationship between flowering time and fruit set of the entomophilous alpine shrub, Rhododendron aureum (Ericaceae), inhabiting snow patches.
Effects of pollinators, herbivores, and seed predators on flowering phenology
Scabiosa columbaria (small scabious, Dipsacaceae) is a gynodioecious, protandrous, entomophilous, short-lived perennial of dry calcareous grasslands.
Inbreeding depression and heterosis effects caused by selfing and outcrossing in Scabiosa Columbaria
Flowers and insects: contributions to an account of the ecological relations of the entomophilous flora and the anthophilous insect fauna of the neighborhood of Carlinville, Illinois.
The potential management of a ground-nesting, solitary bee: Anthophora abrupta (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Pacini (1997) suggested that orbicules are absent in species with a strictly entomophilous pollination in which pollenkitt is present, and that they only occur in anemophilous species (without pollenkitt) and entomophilous angiosperms with a non-specific pollination syndrome: <<Only few taxa with a parietal tapetum with a strong entomophilous syndrome, such as the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and orchids lack Ubisch bodies entirely>> (Pacini & Franchi, 1993: 5).
Orbicules in flowering plants: a phylogenetic perspective on their form and function
New species of entomophilous mites family Acaridae (Sarcoptiformes) of Lower Egypt fauna.
Two New Species of Acotyledon Oudemans, 1903 (Acari: Acaridae) Infesting Stored Chickpea, Cicer arientinum, from Pakistan
Additionally one species (Inga vera) was classified as generalist (species that could be pollinated by more than two pollinator groups, including vertebrate and invertebrate pollinators) and another species (Serjania glutinosa) as entomophilous (species that could be pollinated by species of more than two invertebrate groups).
The hummingbird community and their floral resources in an urban forest remnant in Brazil
Nectar and pollen are two of the rewards that plants offer to pollinators, so according to this, entomophilous plants can be divided into three groups: (1) nectariferous, (2) polliniferous and (3) nectariferous-polliniferous.
Polliniferous plants and foraging strategies of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
The fertilization and insect visitors of our earliest entomophilous flowers.
Dolichomitus irritator (hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): a new parasite of Dectes texanus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in soybeans
Palms show a great diversity in pollination syndrome but are predominantly entomophilous and beetles-pollinated (Henderson, 1986; Silberbauer, 1990).
Disturbance and resilience in tropical American palm populations and communities

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