I am pretty sure that
@PetroleumJunkie412 's plants would eat those bees as they were pollinating.
AJ
Nope! Most big carnivores live in areas where flies pollinate, so they kill and reproduce via the same relationship with flies. This is the 20% that
@Ranger850 is talking about.
Its why plants like the stinking corpse lillies, corpse flowers, etc exist - they attract their pollinators and food with the same stench - death. Since there are so many flies that mob the flowers when they bloom, nature plays the odds, and uses the swarm of flies that shows up to move pollen. Not all flies are stupid enough to be eaten, so they just roll around in pollen looking for something dead to eat, find nothing but pollen, then leave for the next death-smelling flower. No food there either, and so on and so on. Just by them searching for food, they move enough pollen to keep the species going.
This is why I semi-dread when my
nepenthes bloom - one flower makes the house smell like a WW1 trench in July.
You do not have pollination without bait. Plants in the western hemisphere evolved to be food sources to move their pollen around. This was not an action taken by one of the gods, nor was it an accident. Flowers here smell good for a reason. Flowers in Indonesia stink for a reason. They are certain colors for a reason. Everything in a plant is evolved to make it reproduce. Their flowers are designed via natural selection to reproduce the most effectively.
Carnivores that live with bees flower before the bees are out. My American, african, and south american carnivores are in full bloom right now. Cold, dark, and rainy weather triggers flowering. However, no traps have grown yet.
Yes, they evolved this way so that they do not kill their pollinators, and the selection pressure was great enough that ALL carnivores that evolved alongside bees are this way.
This is why the giant hornet thing has the potential to actually kill us all.
Our bees cannot withstand them.
Our agrarian plants rely on bees to pollinate. This is not an accident, it is symbiosis. They have evolved to be this way. This is how plants work.
Yes, you can do it by hand with many, however, not all. Most plants that rely on pollination via flies are sexed - there are male and female plants.
Others have decidedly different tactics to make sure that they are pollinated - stamens will produce pollen before anthers are open, and by time the anthers are open, the pollen that the plant produced first dies. This ensures they cannot self pollinate and that they actually breed with genetically different plants.
Without forage crops, we do not have livestock.
Asian giant hornets have no natural predators.
They have no 'good' natural diseases that can be exploited.
This is do or (maybe actually) die time. They have to be wiped out.
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