{"id":11582,"date":"2017-04-02T03:46:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T02:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11582"},"modified":"2017-03-25T14:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T14:52:28","slug":"pollination-of-crocus-by-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/pollination-of-crocus-by-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollination of Crocus by Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Pollination crocus \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4444663809\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4444663809_ef8737fcc8.jpg\" alt=\"Pollination crocus\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nInsects play a key role in pollination and plants reward them with pollen and nectar in a symbiotic process.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pollination \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4444664019\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4071\/4444664019_128b8a9d43.jpg\" alt=\"Pollination\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChildren can learn from watching bees buzz around the open flowers on a warm spring day.<br \/>\nThe sun encourages the crocus flowers to open. This releases a scent that attracts the bees. The bees drink the nectar and get pollen on their legs and backs. When they fly off to the next flower they transfer some pollen from the first flower to the second flower and this causes pollination.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pollen on Bee \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4444663683\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2736\/4444663683_34226075d9.jpg\" alt=\"Pollen on Bee\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some flowers are pollinated by beetles rather than bees and flies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1449040284\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1449040284.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>How Pollination Works and Why Insects are So Important The First Flowers<\/strong> A book explaining how pollination works as a light and funny children&#8217;s story available <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1449040284\/richardpettin-21\">from Amazon at \u00c2\u00a39.99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the educational spectrum is <strong>Pollination and Floral Ecology<\/strong> by Pat Willmer <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0691128618\/richardpettin-21\">costing<\/a> around \u00c2\u00a361.75<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0691128618\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0691128618.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12267\">Pollinators for Green Gardening<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insects pollinate crocus in these pictures and the two recommended books on the subject of insect pollination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}