Show pollination agents pollination is carried on by various insects by the wind by water by birds etc insect pollination is the most common type in flowering plants those with showy petals or sepals with nectar or a distinct odor gagers the plant world mentions it as a very significant fact that there were no flowers with showy petals on the earth until the geological age in which insects first appeared and then these flowers developed ve loped practically all the conifers including pines hemlocks etc and all grasses are wind pollinated bees are most important to a good rp crop of orchard fruits and to clover one authority estimating that honeybees are worth fifty or more times as much for their part in fertilizing blossoms as they are for their honey |