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| Honeybee foragers visiting a newly-opened Datura |
Most plants flower during the day, but some
flower at night. One such plant is Datura wrightii, sometimes known as
moonflower or Sacred Datura. These
plants typically produce many flowers, but each individual flower opens at dusk
and typically whithers away early the next day.
Researchers have found that the main pollinator for D. wrightii are hawk moths (Family: Sphingidae), which is not
surprising given that moths are night-active.
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