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evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species. Mimicry may evolve between...

flowers, is also known to aid in pollination of Ophrys species that are normally pollinated by bees. In Batesian mimicry, named after the English naturalist...

plants employing sexual mimicry, flowers mimic mating signals of their pollinator insects. These insects are attracted and pollinate the flowers through pseudocopulations...

Allan G.; Johnson, Steven D. (2010). "Floral Mimicry Enhances Pollen Export: The Evolution of Pollination by Sexual Deceit Outside of the Orchidaceae"...

Aggressive mimicry is a form of mimicry in which predators, parasites, or parasitoids share similar signals, using a harmless model, allowing them to avoid...

carry out artificial pollination. A pollinator is different from a pollenizer, a plant that is a source of pollen for the pollination process. Plants fall...

method of transport varies. Flowers can be pollinated by two mechanisms; cross-pollination and self-pollination. No mechanism is indisputably better than...

Chemical mimicry (or molecular mimicry) is a type of biological mimicry involving the use of chemicals to dupe an operator. A chemical mimic dupes an operator...

particular pollination they have sometimes created unique flowers with very strange pollination mechanisms. The species of these tribes are pollinated exclusively...

ornithophily) have highly specialized flowers modified to promote pollination by a specific pollinator that is correspondingly adapted. The first flowering plants...

vast majority of wasps play no role in pollination, a few species can effectively transport pollen and pollinate several plant species. Since wasps generally...

mammals, though many species are mimics of stinging wasps and bees, a mimicry which may serve to ward off predators. Hoverfly hovering behavior is unlike...

general pollination, without preference of flower types. The fly does not bite, sting, or spread disease. However, the fly uses this mimicry of bumblebees...

are an important but often neglected group of pollinators. They play a significant role in the pollination of agricultural biodiversity and the biodiversity...

an example of sexually deceptive pollination and floral mimicry, a highly selective and highly evolved plant–pollinator relationship. Ophrys apifera grows...

as pollinators, among other reasons because they can pollinate plants such as tomato in greenhouses by buzz pollination whereas other pollinators cannot...

a large bee due to its coloration and size. Their bee mimicry (an example of Batesian mimicry) helps them avoid potential predators. Female tiger bee...

specialized as pollination agents, with behavioral and physical modifications that specifically enhance pollination, and are the most efficient pollinating insects...

insects exhibit protective mimicry of aggressive, stinging yellowjackets; in addition to numerous bees and wasps (Müllerian mimicry), the list includes some...

for pollinators. In order for pollination to occur, a relationship of attraction and reward must be present between the flower and the pollinator. The...