How to use in-sentence of “nectar”:
– The Sicklebills’ extremely decurved bills are adapted to extracting nectar from the curved corollas of flowers in the family Gesneriaceae.
– In general, the honeyeaters with long, fine bills eat more nectar, the shorter-billed species less so, but even specialised nectar eaters like the spinebills take extra insects to add protein to their diet when they are breeding.
– Hummingbirds feed in many small meals, consuming many small invertebrates and up to twelve times their own body weight in nectar each day.
– Hebe was the cupbearer of the gods, serving them nectar and ambrosia whenever they feasted.
– Bats drink the nectar, and these plants typically offer nectar for long periods.
– The actual petals are reduced to staminodes with basal nectar glands.Each leaf of “Trollius laxus” consists of five three-lobed leaflets that spread horizontally from the tip of the petiole.
Example sentences of “nectar”:
– In the western United States the flowering is in late January, before the flowering of other nut and fruit trees; this means that its nectar can be easily made into its own kind of honey, which is said to have a buttery taste.
– They have special brush-tipped tongues to feed on nectar of blossoms and soft fruits, preferably berries.
– The bees take the nectar and some pollen back to their hive, and the tomato plants get to reproduce.
– Instead they feed on the nectar of flowers of milkweeds, western soapberry trees, or mesquite trees, which the females also feed on.
– Studies have shown that other spider species live longer when nectar is available.
– So when an insect in search of nectar inserts its proboscis into a long-style flower, the pollen from the stamens stick to the proboscis in exactly the part that will later touch the stigma of the short-styled flower, and vice versa.
– The nectar nectar of some eucalyptus produces high quality honey.
- In the western United States the flowering is in late January, before the flowering of other nut and fruit trees; this means that its nectar can be easily made into its own kind of honey, which is said to have a buttery taste.
- They have special brush-tipped tongues to feed on nectar of blossoms and soft fruits, preferably berries.
– They do not need as much nectar as the fast-flying hawk moths, and the flowers tend to be small.
– Its main food is nectar or pollen, although nursing females will eat small insects.
– They also eat nectar from the eucalypt flowers as well as small insects and spiders.
– This means the animal trying to get the nectar has to touch the parts of the plant that are used for reproduction.
– Bees like to get their nectar locally, and do not go more than two miles from the hive.
More in-sentence examples of “nectar”:
– Leaves are frequently leathery and flowers are small, with four to five sepals and petals; alternating between the petals, stamens rise from a usually conspicuous nectar disk.
– Pygmy marmosets mainly feed on gum, but they also eat fruit, nectar and insects.
– A moth uses its proboscis to collect nectar just like a butterfly does.
– A hummingbird sometimes puts its whole head into the flower to drink the nectar properly.
– Its diet consists of insects, fleshy fruits, Nut nuts, nectar and seeds.
– Milkweeds are an important nectar source for bees and other nectar eaters, and a food source for caterpillars.
– Adult Monarchs have been seen on a number of different nectar plants.
– Other important sources of nectar are “Pittosporum”, “Grevillea”, “Spathodea campanulata”.
– These birds feed on nectar from flowers using a long tongue.
– Usually both male and female mosquitoes feed on nectar and plant juices.
– However, smaller members of the family do hover hummingbird-style to collect nectar from time to time.
– By doing this, the animal getting the nectar helps the plants reproduce.
– To help, some people plant a butterfly garden with flowers having lots of nectar for butterflies to feed on.
– Feeding on nectar also avoids the risks of struggles with prey, and the costs of producing venom and digestive enzymes.
– At the end of the summer, little white flowers full of nectar appear and attract bees.
– After bees collect nectar from flowers, and make it into honey, the bees then put the honey in the small six sided areas of the honeycomb.
– It can make 90 wingbeats per second when it’s hovering to drink nectar from flowers.
– At one time they were thought to be mainly bee-eaters, but they eat the nectar of Australian native flowers.
– Many plants pollinated by hummingbirds produce flowers in shades of red, Orange orange, and bright pink, though the birds will take nectar from flowers of many colors.
– It has a more robust taste, made from blue agave nectar and some new spices.
– Hindu history also contains a story about the churning of the Cosmic Ocean in order to obtain Amrita – the nectar of immortal life.
– The extent of nectar consumption by spiders may therefore have been under-estimated.
– It also collects pollen and nectar from banana blossoms.
– The bee moves between flowers as it collects the nectar that the flowers make.
– The male mosquito lives on the nectar of flowers.
- Leaves are frequently leathery and flowers are small, with four to five sepals and petals; alternating between the petals, stamens rise from a usually conspicuous nectar disk.
- Pygmy marmosets mainly feed on gum, but they also eat fruit, nectar and insects.
- A moth uses its proboscis to collect nectar just like a butterfly does.
– In one group, the pollen wasps, grubs are fed pollen and nectar only.
– A few species sometimes eat animals and carrion, while the lories and lorikeets are specialised for feeding on flowerfloral nectar and soft fruits.
– Megabats eat fruit, nectar or pollen.
– They reject flowers whose nectar has less than 10% sugar.
– All thyme species are nectar sources, but wild thyme covers large areas of droughty, rocky soils in southern Europe and North Africa, as well as in similar landscapes in the Berkshire Mountains and Catskill Mountains of the northeastern US.
– Like bees, hummingbirds can assess the amount of sugar in the nectar they eat.
– The raspberry is red when ripe, and is also a source of nectar for juices.
– These insects will eat both the nectar and any plant-eating insects found near the plant.
– Tarantula hawks are also nectarivores, meaning they eat the nectar of flowers.
– Flowers attractive to hummingbirds, which hover in front of the flower, tend to be large red or orange tubes with a lot of dilute nectar produced during the day.
– Another insect in this zone which can try some of the nectar of the gladioli is the best-known European Hawk-moth “Macroglossum stellatarum” which usually pollinates many famous garden flowers like “Petunia”, “Zinnia”, “Dianthus” and others.
– It covers an area of 11,700 hectares, Most of the area is covered in banksias and woodland which attracts many nectar feeding birds.
– Since butterflies do not digest pollen, more nectar is offered than pollen.
– Extrafloral nectaries -a gland secreting nectar -are common among the Mimosoideae and the Caesalpinioideae and are also found in some Faboideae.
– Honey is flower nectar that has been collected and processed by bees.
– Polyfloral honey, also called wildflower honey, is gotten from the nectar of many types of flowers.
– These flowers make a Sweet sweet nectar that can be eaten.
– A lot of nectar is produced to fuel the high metabolic rates needed to power their flight.
– Ivy is very important for ecology: its nectar and seeds are available when few other plants are.
– The adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae eat a wide range of foods.
– Plants make nectar to attract pollinationpollinating animals.
– They are a major source of nectar and pollen for honeyeaters, lorikeets and many kinds of invertebrates.