Trait CollectionDiet & Ecology

Pollinator

Feeding on floral nectar while transferring pollen across plants to power forest and grassland reproduction.

4 creatures with this trait

A short-tongued bumblebee that bites holes in flowers to steal nectar, and nests underground in colonies of up to 600.

A nocturnal canopy climber that twists 180 degrees between pelvis and head, can hang by its tail and reaches nectar with a 13 cm tongue.

A butterfly of about half a gram that wears milkweed poison as armor, and whose eastern migrants steer by the sun.

A metabolic dynamo that can beat its wings more than 50 times a second and cross the Gulf of Mexico in a single non-stop flight.