Bumblebee

Bombus sp.

Western honey bee

Apis mellifera

Important pollinator, robust, hairy and

with a long proboscis (similar to a trunk). There are plants that are

pollinated only by this insect.

It recognizes flowers by smell and colour, preferring white, blue, lilac and yellow. Need a landing pad or large petals, often with guides to the nectar. It is a universal pollinator,

but very threatened...

Marmalade hoverfly

Episyrphus balteatus

White spotted rose beetle

Oxythyrea funesta

Pollinates open, wide flowers, with space to land and nectar with easy access. Send wasps

and bees to ward off predators.

Likes big, open flowers, and does not require airstrips. It feeds on pollen grains and parts of flowers.

Tobacco hornworm

Manduca sexta

Dark long-tongued bat

Lichonycteris obscura

It has a very long spirotromba (similar to a trunk that unfolds, becoming like a straw that sucks

nectar) and has night activity.

Like other bat species, it feeds on insects, nectar and pollen from strong, large flowers at night. Has a long tongue to reach the

bottom of the floral tubes.

Pollinating wasps Família Agaonidae

Common fruit fly

Drosophila sp.

It enters through the small holes between the scales of this ‘fruit’, pollinates it and produces tiny fruits inside. After laying eggs, females

die inside, and so do males.

It is the intense smell of very ripe or rotten fruit that attracts this insect.

Monarch butterfly

Danaus plexippus

Wasp

Argogorytes mystaceus

Likes bright, long-coloured flowers or tube-shaped and often with nectar guides. Need a location to land while

feeding.

It is deceived by a plant whose flower has a very familiar smell...

Colibri

Colibri sp.

Yucca moth

Tegeticula yuccasella

Common pollinator of red flowers or bright colours. Hover next to the big flowers to suck the nectar with

your adapted tongue.

Carefully pollinates the plant to provide the birth of seeds, which are the exclusive food of their larvae.

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Fly orchid

Ophrys insectifera

Gum rockrose

Cistus ladanifer

The flowers resemble a specific insect and even its smell is similar to a female. The male is attracted to this odor and performs mating movements. It is at this time that pollination occurs.

Open flowers, with spots on the petals that serve as a landing strip, indicating the

direction of the nectar.

Jimsonweed

Datura sp.

Century plant

Agave sp.

The flowers open in the late afternoon, being pollinated by an insect with nocturnal activity. The nectaries are

hidden in the bottom of the flower.

The flowers open only at night and give off a smell of rotten fruit to attract night pollinators.

Pinus pinaster

Pinus pinaster

Yucca

Yucca sp.

The pollen grains are large and light, leaving the ground all yellow around the trees.

The position of the stamens implies that the plant depends on a small insect to collect the pollen and transport it to the

stylets, ensuring its fruiting.

Rosemary

Rosmarinus officinalis

Rye

Secale cereale

It has blue flowers, with nectar guides and airstrips that

facilitate the work of pollinators.

The stamens, full of pollen grains, are 'in position' waiting for their pollinator.

West Indian Lantana

Lantana camara

Aristolochia baetica

Aristolochia baetica

It has colourful and tubular flowers. Produces a large amount of néctar…

The flower emits a smell similar to rotten fruit, manure or rotten meat, attracting insects to its interior. The shape of the flower traps

the insects that, when trying to leave, take the pollen with them.

Common fig

Ficus carica

Southern magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora

Behind the sweetness of this fruit is a life cycle that involves a specific insect. Without this symbiosis there were no figs, which

means that the figs bring 'toast’...

Its large, open flowers do not produce nectar and do not have an airstrip (which confuses some insects, such as bees). The insects that

seek them feed on pollen and parts of the flower.

Hibiscus

Hibiscus sp.

Strelitzia

Strelitzia sp.

It produces large, red flowers that attract a fast daytime pollinator.

The bright colors of your flowers attract daytime pollinators in search of their nectar. It resembles a small

colored bird.

Snapdragon

Antirrhinum majus

Dedaleira Lady's glove

Digitalis purpurea

The entrance to the flower is closed and only strong and heavy insects can open it and reach the nectar.

It has oval flowers, with nectaries hidden inside. Only insects of the right size are able to reach the nectar, getting 'polluted'

from pollen when they enter the flower.