How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos
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Plants have a hard time finding mates -- their inability to get up and move around tends to inhibit them. Luckily for plants, bees and other pollinator species (including butterflies, moths and birds) help matchmake these lonely plants in exchange for food. Fernanda S. Valdovinos explains how these intricate pollination networks work and how it can all change from one season to the next.
Most pollinator networks for which we have data are “nested.” Draw and describe how a nested plant-pollinator network looks like. Which may be the reason for nestedness to evolve?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Fernanda S. Valdovinos
- Collaborator Eric Berlow
- Animator Nadav Arbel
- Artist Moran Barak
- Narrator Addison Anderson
