Sentences with phrase «drink nectar from a flower»

While looking for her next project, Nasto came upon a study by researchers at Brown University who took high - speed videos of bats drinking nectar from a flower.

A hawk moth (Manduca sexta) uses its eight - centimeter - long proboscis to drink nectar from a flower of Nicotiana alata, a species of wild tobacco also called jasmine or winged tobacco.

They overwinter in forested groves along coastal California, then fan out in the spring to lay their eggs on milkweed and drink nectar from flowers in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah.

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Adults may drink the nectar of composite flowers (sunflower family), using a long tube called a proboscis that extends from the underside of the head.

While monarch butterflies drink nectar for nourishment from thousands of different species of native and cultivated flowers, the foliage of milkweed is the only food source on which monarch caterpillars can feed.