Oligolecty

Quick meaning: Oligolecty is a noun meaning (entomology) The preference of an insect pollinator (chiefly a bee) for pollinating only a few plant species.

Meaning

(entomology) The preference of an insect pollinator (chiefly a bee) for pollinating only a few plant species.

Example Sentences

We have, thus, a case where different types of bees are similarly adapted to oligolecty on a certain group of plants.

Once oligolecty was documented, the following two summers were used for field study of widely separated populations of I. pandurata.

An individual of a polylectic species that takes pollen from only a few kinds of plants is showing flower constancy rather than oligolecty.

In so far as now known, all of the species exhibit a high degree of oligolecty (or monolecty) being restricted in pollen collecting to a single genus of plants.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oligophagy, monophagy, oligomorph, zoogamy, oligogenicity, oligosaprobe.

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