Example sentences for: nectar

How can you use “nectar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Now add a few bees to this community of birds, sufficiently few that their intake of nectar is negligible.

  • In fact, there is even no need to perform experimental bird removals, because plants provide us with a ready-made design: bees visit flowers searching for both nectar and pollen, while most birds exploit only the nectar.

  • Plants face a trade-off between attracting pollinators and remaining hidden from flower parasites (such as nectar robbers and seed predators).

  • The traditional explanation for this association is that, since red is inconspicuous to bees, it evolved to prevent bees from depleting the nectar of bird-pollinated flowers without effecting pollination.

  • The expected intake rate is the average amount of nectar obtained per flower (or standing crop) divided by the time it takes to find and exploit a flower.


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