How do bee and fly flowers differ from moth and wind flowers?
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Bee, fly AND moth flowers offer a nectar reward to the insect while wind pollinated flowers have very little or no nectar.  Grasses are wind pollinated and have no nectar.  Moth pollinated flowers are very long because moths have long probiscuses.  The flower has to be long so the moth gets close enough to get pollen on it's body.  Bee and fly flowers are shorter because the insect enters the flower completely to get nectar.
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The Flower:\nThe flower is the reproductive unit of some plants (angiosperms). Parts of the flower include petals, sepals, one or more carpels (the female reproductive organs), and stamens (the male reproductive organs). \nThe Female Reproductive Organs:\nThe pistil is the collective term for the carpel(s). Each carpel includes an ovary (where the ovules are produced; ovules are the female reproductive cells, the eggs), a style (a tube on top of the ovary), and a stigma (which receives the pollen during fertilization). \n\nThe Male Reproductive Organs:\nStamens are the male reproductive parts of flowers. A stamen consists of an anther (which produces pollen) and a filament. The pollen consists of the male reproductive cells; they fertilize ovules. \n\nFertilization:\nPollen must fertilize an ovule to produce a viable seed. This process is called pollination, and is often aided by animals like bees, which fly from flower to flower collecting sweet nectar. As they visit flowers, they spread pollen around, depositing it on some stigmas. After a male's pollen grains have landed on the stigma during fertilization, pollen tubes develop within the style, burrowing down to the ovary, where the sperm fertilizes an ovum (an egg cell), in the ovule. After fertilization, the ovule develops into a seed in the ovary. \n\nTypes of Flowers:\nSome flowers (called perfect flowers) have both male and female reproductive organs; some flowers (called imperfect flowers) have only male reproductive organs or only female reproductive organs. Some plants have both male and female flowers, while other have males on one plant and females on another. Complete flowers have stamens, a pistil, petals, and sepals. Incomplete flowers lack one of these parts. \n\nto find an extensive biology of plants please visit:\nhttp://users.pandora.be/educypedia/education/plantbiology.htm
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From an entomologist friend, about flight "motors": The dragonfly is one that dates back to very ancient times. It is different from more modern insects in that its wings are powered by essentially vertically oriented internal muscles and pivoted at the exoskeleton, kind of the way you would design a simple mechanical flapping flyer. The modern design uses a very different concept; thoracic muscles distort plates of the thorax, whose in-and-out motions at the edges are coupled to wing motion.\nOther differences are the actual motion of the wings and how they generate lift and thrust. You can find out more, including the suspected origin of the wings and the two basic wing motions, at the referenced web page.
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Some Dude is correct.  Red coloration is attractive to birds.  Red fruit get's eaten by the birds and the fruid seed passes through the birds digestive tract to hopefully grow up in it's new location.\n\nThe flowers that are normally pollinated by birds instead of insects are usually red, to attract their pollinators.
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honey bees feed on the nectar produced from the nectaries present just below the anther in the stamen which is the male reproductive part of flower
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Biggest Flower is Rafflesia arnoldii.\nEach bloom can be as big as 3 feet wide and can weigh up to 24 pounds. The reddish-brown flower, which emits a revolting odor, is found in Southeast Asia (primarily Borneo and Sumatra). This unusual plant produces no leaves, stems, or roots. It is a parasite on the Tetrastigma vine, which grows in the rain forest.\n\nSmallest Flowering Plant is Wolffia augusta and Wolffia globosa.\nThe smallest flowering plants belong to the genus Wolffia, tiny rootless plants of the duckweed family (Lemnaceae) that float on the surface of quiet streams and ponds. The entire plant body of both Wolffia augusta, an Australian species, and Wolffia globosa, a tropical species, are less than 1 mm long (less than 1/25th of an inch). An average plant is 0.6 mm long (1/42 of an inch) and 0.3 mm wide (1/85th of an inch) and weights about 150 micrograms (1/190,000 of an ounce) or approximately the weight of two grains of table salt. A bouquet of one dozen plants in full bloom would fit on the head of a pin.♥
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Bright colours and nectar are features that attract insects who disperse the pollen from flower to flower.
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geographical (spatial) isolation, \nisolation of the biotope, i.e. the organisms live in the same area, but have different needs regarding the biotop, \nisolation by season or daytime, i.e. the opening of flowers is staggered depending on season or daytime, \nethological isolation, i.e. the species to be pollinated are visited by different pollinators, \nmechanical isolation, i.e. a genetically reproductive isolation within a species is diminished or prevented by differences in the flowers’ shape, \nisolation by sterility..
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Interesting question, because it shows the difference between two levels or types of speech.\n"Bug" is a common term that people use with different meanings.\nIn contrast, scientific names of natural groups have the same definition and content all around the world. In that sense, 'Insecta' (insects) is a class of arthropods that includes animals with articulated exoskeleton, 3 pairs of legs, 1 pair of antennae, and body divided into head, thorax and abdomen (among other characteristics). The definition of insect is the same everywhere.\nSo, those terms are not opposites, but whether one comprises the other will depend on the popular definition of 'bug'. Some people include also spiders, which are not insects, in the 'bug' category. For others, bugs are only beetles, and therefore would be included in the definition of Insects.\nI looked in my dictionary and it said:\n1. A true bug. \n2. An insect or similar organism, such as a centipede or an earwig. \n3. A disease-producing microorganism.\n\nSo I'd say that for most people, bugs are "insects + others" as you put it.
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(m)\n\nAnother property of a bee is that is flies. When a bee flies it vibrates its wings up and down to produce lift and thus is able to move through the air at a measurable speed. The velocity, or speed, at which the bee is able to move is another of its measurable properties (you need to measure both the distance a bee travels and the time it takes before you can determine this property).\n\nmore details goto the following link\n\nhttp://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/LAD/C3/C3_MatterWaves.html
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Moths are less colourful than butterfly, they are coloured like dead leaves or tree barks(not all of them). They can be known easily by looking at their antennae, butterflies have thin, thread-like antennae, while moth's atennae can be straight or feathery. Some of them have short, stabbing mouthparts Others, which have none at all, cannot eat and only live long enough to reproduce. Not all moths are dull in colour, a day-flying moth from Madagascar looks a lot like a butterfly but it is a moth.  Not all moths are vegetarian, several swallowtails suck up the rotting flesh of animals. Vampire Moths from Asia has a dagger-like mouthpart that it uses to suck the blood of its vintim, including humans.\nA wing of a moth and a butterfly are same, they revel thousands of scales overlapping each other, each has different sizes, shape and colour, this is what allows moths and butterflies indentify each other.\nMoths mostly go out when it is dark, to prevent predators such as birds from eating it.
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The bumble bee is related to the honey bee.  It is a flying insect of the genus Bombus in the family Apidae. Like the common honeybee, of which it is a relative, the bumblebee feeds on nectar and gathers pollen to feed its young. These creatures are beneficial to humans and the plant world alike, and tend to be larger than other members of the bee family. Most, but not all, bumblebee species are gentle.\n\nBumblebees are social insects that are characterized by a black and yellow striped body, a commonality among the majority of the species of Bombus; however, some species are known to have orange or even red on their bodies. Another distinguishing characteristic is a hairlike substance, called pile, that covers their entire body, making them appear and feel fuzzy. Queen and worker bumblebees can sting. Their sting is not barbed like that of the honeybee, so they can sting more than once.
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Every flower is a terminal branch consisting of a modified stem, the floral axis, or receptacle. The floral axis bears one to four types of specialized appendages, or modified leaves, usually arranged in whorls in the more advanced flowers and spirally arranged in the more primitive ones. In a typical flower the outermost whorl, the calyx, consists of a number of sepals that protect the flower bud before it blooms. The next whorl on the floral receptacle, the corolla, is composed of a number of petals, often bearing nectar-producing glands that aid in attracting pollinators (see Pollination). The next whorl, the androecium, consists of a number of stamens that produce in anthers the pollen necessary for reproduction. Two whorls of stamens may be present. The next, or innermost, whorl of the flower, called the gynoecium, consists of several carpels frequently fused to form a pistil. Each carpel contains at least one placenta to which are attached ovules, or immature seeds. The calyx and corolla are collectively known as the perianth.
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bees are most attracted to brightly colored flowers with a strong scent.\nso i would say the colorfull ones!
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Insects are attracted to the light reflected of the plants and they are most certainly NOT color-blind. Bees can see into the ultra-violet end of the spectrum farther than humans so they don't see the same colors we do.
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Mammals don't see colors the way we do, for example it may be impossible to train them to choose one of two colors to get a food reward.  Insects often see UV light, which we don't, so two red flowers that look exactly the same to us could look 'great' due to UV markings and 'boring' due to no UV markings to an insect.
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You are seeing very small scales come off of their wings.  If you are careful with a moth wing, you can rub the scales off and be left with nearly transparent material.  Butterflies are the same way; if you ever handle on, you are almost guaranteed to have some pigmented scales on your hands afterwards.\n\nOther than that, moths are made of the same stuff other living things are...water, lipids, proteins etc.\n\nHere is a nice page with some microphotography of these scales:\nhttp://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/micro3.htm