Meaning of pollinivore | Babel Free

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Any animal that feeds on pollen; a palynivore.

Examples

“Vittatina-type pollen grain from the gut of another pollinivore, Sojanidelia floralis Rasn., from the same locality, x1 200.”

“Insects visiting flowers of H. spinosa can be divided into two guilds: nectarivores (small flies and ants) and pollinivores (bees and hoverflies), which differ⟳ in pollination attributes.”

“Adult pollen feeding is also highly probable for a number⟳ of Mesozoic polyphagan beetles (e.g., elaterids, buprestids, some cleroids) and some cupedoid archostematans. Thus by the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous the pollinivore guild was probably rich and diverse.”

“Bats have⟳ a wide range of eating habits. There are species that feed⟳ on insects (insectivores), fruits (frugivores), vertebrates (carnivores), pollen and nectar (pollinivores/nectar-feeding), and blood (hematophages).”

“During the same time that A[pis] m[ellifera] adansonii encounters on flowers were registered, we noted the type⟳ of floral products collected by this bee. This parameter was measured to determine⟳ if A. m. adansonii is strictly a pollinivore, nectarivore or pollinivore and nectarivore. This could give⟳ us an idea of its implication as a cross-pollinator of G[ossypium] hirsutum.”

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