Editing Biological interaction (section)

==== Pollination ====
[[File:Hummingbird hawkmoth a.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Pollination]] has driven the [[coevolution]] of [[flowering plant]]s and their animal [[pollinator]]s for over 100 million years.]]
{{see also|Pollination|Plant-pollinator interactions}}
In pollination, pollinators including [[insect]]s ([[entomophily]]), some [[bird]]s ([[ornithophily]]), and some [[bat]]s, transfer [[pollen]] from a male flower part to a female flower part, enabling [[fertilisation]], in return for a reward of pollen or nectar.<ref name="crop_Type">{{Cite web | title=Types of Pollination, Pollinators and Terminology | work=CropsReview.Com | access-date=2015-10-20 | url=http://www.cropsreview.com/types-of-pollination.html}}</ref> The partners have coevolved through geological time; in the case of insects and [[flowering plant]]s, the coevolution has continued for over 100 million years. Insect-pollinated flowers are [[adaptation|adapted]] with shaped structures, bright colours, patterns, scent, nectar, and sticky pollen to attract insects, guide them to pick up and deposit pollen, and reward them for the service. Pollinator insects like [[bee]]s are adapted to detect flowers by colour, pattern, and scent, to collect and transport pollen (such as with bristles shaped to form pollen baskets on their hind legs), and to collect and process nectar (in the case of [[honey bee]]s, making and storing [[honey]]). The adaptations on each side of the interaction match the adaptations on the other side, and have been shaped by [[natural selection]] on their effectiveness of pollination.<ref name=Lunau>{{cite journal |last1=Lunau |first1=Klaus |title=Adaptive radiation and coevolution — pollination biology case studies |journal=Organisms Diversity & Evolution |date=2004 |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=207–224 |doi=10.1016/j.ode.2004.02.002|doi-access= |bibcode=2004ODivE...4..207L }}</ref><ref name=Pollan2001>{{cite book |author=Pollan, Michael |title=The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-0-7475-6300-6 |date=2001|title-link=The Botany of Desire }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1=Ehrlich | first1=Paul R. |author1-link=Paul R. Ehrlich | last2=Raven | first2=Peter H. | author2-link=Peter H. Raven | year=1964 | title=Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution | journal=Evolution | volume=18 | issue=4 | pages=586–608 | doi=10.2307/2406212| jstor=2406212 }}</ref>