Fungus gnats as pollinators not pests

ScienceDaily
Aug 23, 2023, 4:25 pm44 pts
Many plants and crops rely on insects to pollinate them so they can reproduce. A new study has shown that several flowering plants from the group Euonymus are pollinated by fungus gnats, a dipteran insect. Specifically, they pollinate Euonymus plants which have red-petaled flowers with short stamens and…

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