Pollinator Puzzle

4. _____ Birds and _____ Bees are considered selfish due to their brood parasitism, a survival strategy where they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, forcing the hosts to raise their young.
6. Solitary bee that burrows in wood to make their nests
8. The transfer of pollen from the stamen (male) to the stigma (female).
10. Bees are nearly ubiquitous, occurring on every continent except __________
13. Tiny, fast-flying bird with a long beak and tongue to sip nectar from flowers
14. A behavior that benefits another individual at a cost to the actor
15. solitary bee that can has metallic species and enjoys salty ______ for nutrition

1. Direct fitness + indirect fitness= ________ fitness
2. Emperor Penguins huddling together to lower their metabolic rate and produce heat is a form of what species interaction?
3. A powdery substance containing reproductive cells produced by the stamen of a flower, without which, angiosperms could not reproduce. (Clue: when anemophilous plants (wind pollinated) release this, many of us often experience itchy throats, runny noses and weepy eyes)
4. Many bees carry pollen in a _________, or pollen basket, a small basket of specialized hairs on their hind legs
5. A collection of interdependent organisms that functions as a single, unified entity, where the individuals are highly specialized and cannot survive independently
7. A fly has how many wings
9. A ___ plant is one that naturally grows in a certain geographic area
11. Bees that are not native to North America, but are commonly found after they were brought here by European settlers in the 1620s.
12. A bee has four of these
13. Proposed the rule in evolutionary biology where altruism evolves if the genetic relatedness (r) multiplied by the fitness benefit to the recipient (B) is greater than the fitness cost to the donor (C)
16. pollinator that is needed to pollinate figs