Also, the flowers they depend upon are generally trumpet shaped, quite deep in physical dimension and the nectar is located deep down at the bottom of the flower and therefore usually inaccessible to the other pollinators. Color is the feature that attracts hummingbirds best. While other pollinators use smell or aroma to guide them into nectar producing flowers, the flowers that hummers utilize have very weak scents or no smell at all. Only the cheapest of hummingbird feeders, and the lowest quality overall, feature nectar ports that are colored yellow and that’s the reason why folks who buy these types of feeders (usually from discount and non-specialty stores) complain about bees being a problem. This is why the vast majority of hummingbird feeders are red and not yellow. This helps in understanding why throughout most of the year, bees are not so well attracted to all-red hummingbird feeders. In the case of bees, for example, yellow is the color of flower they lock onto. Hummingbird vision excels in the warmest of the warm ultra violet spectrum of sunlight and this is a primary reason why hummingbirds are particularly attracted to the colors red-orange, light red, dark red and purple. The other pollinators, to varying degrees depend upon color, smell or aroma, and other physical features of the flowers themselves – such as the shape and depth of the flower, the depth of the nectar inside the tube of the flower, and whether or not there’s a place for them to land on the flower in order to gain access to that plant’s nectar. This particular group of flowers have physical features that prevent the other pollinators from being successful with these particular nectar yielding flowers. However, at least 150 species of these flowers are primarily, and in some instances exclusively, pollinated by hummingbirds. These particular flowers are pollinated by a variety of bees, butterflies and, to a lesser extent, our nectar eating bats. In North America there are more than 200 native species of nectar producing flowering plants. There is a very old and intimate relationship between hummingbirds and the nectar producing plants that depend upon them for pollination. About our Small Batch Bird Foods by WBS.
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