Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female to reproduce because their flowers have both male parts and ...

Mutualistic interactions are mutually beneficial species interactions. Plant-pollinator mutualisms are particularly important, and involve nearly 170,000 plant and 200,000 animal species.