How do bats help pollinate the saguaro cactuses of the deserts?
Like this!
We traced the edge of the cup onto a coffee filter
And cut it out [to be petals]
We made a circle of corn syrup and cut straws shorter than
the cups [to make the pollen stick and to mimic the proboscises of the bats]
And then dipped them in colored sugar [the pollen]
And poured a small amount of Coca-cola in the bottom of the cups [to mimic nectar]
And used our straws [proboscises] to drink out the pop [nectar]
The kids [bats] really had to smush their faces into the
rims of the cups [cactuses] to enjoy the pop [nectar]
This resulted in sugary [polleny] faces
and if they moved on to their neighbor’s cup [cactus] they would
have left behind remnants of sugar [pollen]
and helped to make new flowers!
did not think of this myself – all the credit goes
to Carrie Austin at Heart of Dakota Publishing.
DO TRY THIS AT HOME!
AND- if you think this sounds familiar…
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