Example sentences for: nectar

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

  • It is rather a question of relative efficiency that makes bees avoid red flowers when birds are depleting their nectar; it would work just as well if birds were colourblind and perceived red flowers as badly as flowers of other colours.

  • The question is: how many birds and bees should forage at the red and blue patches so that their intake of nectar is maximised?

  • 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.

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

  • Bees could impose several costs on the ancestral bird flowers; for example, the number of hummingbird visits may depend on the amount of nectar available in the flowers.


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