The cricket that pollinates plants
The cricket that pollinates plants
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
January 13, 2010
Insect is filmed transferring pollen between orchids for first time
Grasshoppers and their relatives can pollinate plants like bees, scientists have discovered.
The unexpected finding has come from the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, where a cricket has been seen pollinating an orchid – that is, transferring pollen, which contains a plant's male sperm, to another plant's female organs, enabling it to produce seeds.
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