When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee.

Lesser Long-nosed Bat in flight at night feeding on Agave blossom . Getty. In the mid-1860s, a tiny parasitic aphid called phylloxera tore through the vineyards of France so mercilessly it ...

The Pallas' long-tongued bat has a neat trick at the tip of its tongue — tiny hairlike structures that fill with blood and stand straight out. This turns the tongue into a nectar-slurping mop at ...

The pallid bat, in contrast, is the only nectar feeder known in its mostly insect-eating family, which is the largest and most widespread family of bats. “A lot of pollinators come from lineages that ...

One nectar bat can launch its tongue one and a half times its body length, longer than any other mammal and second only to chameleons among vertebrates, scientists recently discovered.

The tube-lipped nectar bat, Anoura fistulata, has the longest tongue relative to size of any mammal on the planet. It stretches for 8.5 centimeters (more than 3 inches) – that’s 150% of its ...

Some talented humans can fold their tongues into a three-leaf clover, but some bats accomplish an even greater feat: Hair-like structures on their tongue tips stand to attention when they lap up ...

A nectar-feeding bat uses a blood-powered hydraulic process to control hair-like structures on its tongue to efficiently slurp up the sugary liquid from flowers. Page 1 of 1 - 1 Total Items. 1.

Holy nectar, Batman. A British retiree managed to capture a stunning image of a Long Tongue bat licking nectar from a flower while he was on vacation in Costa Rica.

This story was originally published by Inside Science News Service. (ISNS) -- A bat that uses blood flow to reshape its tongue while feeding could help inspire the development of shape-shifting ...

Perhaps nothing is more apropos in summer than learning about our sun. You can this weekend at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. Or check out these other bright events. Got an event ...

Insect-eating bat outperforms nectar specialist as pollinator of cactus flowers. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 12 / 121206131827.htm.