Once J had picked the Daffodil
from the garden we looked at the
flower and I pointed out the petals and then where the
nectar is — he knew this
from his book — Bee and Me: a Mini-motion Book which he
got for his birthday last year and loves to read as the pages move.
Instead of
nectar, researchers suggest the appendage likely helped the winged insects avoid becoming dehydrated in the hot and arid climate of the time by
getting sustenance
from another source: sweet secretions beaded up into droplets on seed - bearing — as opposed to
flowering — plants.