Definition of anthophilous in English:
anthophilous
adjective anˈθɒfɪləsanˈTHäfələs
Zoology (of insects or other animals) frequenting flowers.
Example sentencesExamples
- Adults of some Dolichopodinae have elongate mouthparts and are known to be anthophilous and feed on nectar.
- This foraging profile overlapped with those of all anthophilous insect families, all bee subgenera, and all species of nectarivorous birds that were encountered.
- The elongate, loose inflorescence usually bears 4 10 brilliantly rose-coloured flowers which completely lack nectar or other food for anthophilous insects and thus act by deceit.
- However, anthophilous birds appeared to mostly forage higher in the trees and probably consumed more nectar from, and provided more pollination services to, flowers higher in the trees.
- At least seventy-one families of Diptera contain anthophilous species, and flies are pollinators of more than eleven hundred species.