From Seed to Seed:
Plant Science for K-8 Educators
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Digging Deeper Flower Lures We've mentioned bees and beetles as pollinating insects. Other
important pollinators
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include
butterflies, moths, ants, hummingbirds, and even bats! Different pollinators
are attracted to different things-the scent, color and shape of the flowers,
or the quality of the 
nectar,
for example. Ask students to think of some interestingly shaped flowers
in a garden. Then ask them to imagine how they might attract different
pollinators. (For example, hummingbirds, with their long, slender bills,
are attracted to trumpet-shaped flowers, and flowers that bloom at night
attract moths.