![]() ![]() Blending solo and ensemble sets, with the occasional insightful tale, they come together in a fiery blend to excite your senses. Rare like single malts, each member of Blazin’ Fiddles draws the distinct flavour of music from their part of the Highlands and Islands. Blazin' Fiddles celebrate 20 years of touring and recording and are delighted to honour this birthday with a string of special performances throughout Scotland with special guest singer Karen Matheson. We won’t be able to answer every question, but we will do our best.The wonderful combination of Blazin' Fiddles' fiery tunes and the golden Gaelic voice of Karen Matheson is not to be missed. ![]() Hello, curious kids! Do you have a question you’d like an expert to answer? Ask an adult to send your question to Please tell us your name, age and the city where you live.Īnd since curiosity has no age limit – adults, let us know what you’re wondering, too. Once pollinated, the flower stops producing a floral scent and nectar and redirects its energy to the fertilized embryo that will become the seed. While drinking the sweet nectar, the pollinator picks up pollen which it then deposits in the next flower visited. Their strong perfume helps guide pollinators inside. The night-blooming cereus, the saguaro cactus and the dragon fruit all have large white flowers which open at night – they seem to glow in the moonlight, making them visible to nocturnal visitors. Moths and bats flying at night locate flowers by the scent some release after the Sun goes down. Similarly, the corpse flower, native to Indonesian rainforests, emits a foul odor reminiscent of rotting flesh to attract flies and beetles to pollinate its flowers. But stick your nose into the beautiful flowers of a pear tree – a close relative of apples and cherries – and you may recoil in disgust, as these flowers smell musky or putrid to attract flies as pollinators. A blooming apple or cherry tree emits a sweet scent to attract bumblebees, honeybees and other bees. Photography by Mangiwau/Moment via Getty Imagesįlower fragrances may be sweet and fruity, or they can be musky, even stinky or putrid depending on the pollinator they are trying to attract. The giant corpse flower has a very stinky scent that its pollinators love. People can smell these floral scents because they easily evaporate from the flower, drifting on the air currents to attract pollinators. The scent of a rose may consist of as many as 400 different chemicals. The type of chemical, its amount and its interaction with other chemicals give the flower its unique scent. Similar to the perfumes at a department store counter, flower scents are made up from a large and diverse number of chemicals which evaporate easily and float through the air. To differentiate itself from other flowers, each species’ flowers puts out a unique scent to attract specific pollinators. ![]() However, there are flowers which look similar but are from other species. Animal pollinators are rewarded by sweet energy- and nutrient-rich nectar or protein-packed pollen they can eat.įlowers that need the help of insects and bats go one step further, producing a floral scent that acts as a smelly kind of welcome sign for just the right pollinator.Īn orchid blooming in the tropical forest or a rose in your garden needs to attract a pollinator to bring pollen from flowers of the same species. In these cases, the flowers might provide a little incentive. Other flowers are pollinated by birds, bats, insects or even small rodents carrying the pollen from one flower to another. Animal pollinators can carry pollen from one flower’s stigma to another flower’s ovule as they forage for food. ![]()
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