stingless bee colony

Thanks Juan, that explains it nicely. The orchids get round that problem by glueing the pollinia onto their bodies without so much as an excuse me! I'm really interested in this mission but there seems to be a lot of photos that are just of insects and assume they are pollinators. I'd like to see just pictures of things visiting flowers,perhaps not effecting pollination as you point out but it would really help build a picture of some of the webs of life radiating out from the plants involved and give some idea of what the plants themselves depend on. (phew, long sentence!) I guess I'd like to know your intentions for the mission as maybe I'll create another for plant/animal/insect/fungi interaction.

a good exception are wasps of Agaonid family. They are the only pollinators of Figs, but this family don´t have anything to do with Vespid family

aaa, remember is not the same thing to be a flower visitor than a pollinator. The most efficient pollinators have specialized structures for carring pollen, like curbicles or hairs. Wasps typically have few simple hairs, so is really hard for the pollen grains to stick at the body

I can think of a good few plants that are wasp pollinated Admittedly most are orchids but I've seen them as visitors to many other flowers and always assumed that some would be responsible for pollination. why do you say they don't make good pollinators Juan?

nop, stingless bees never make nest hanging from leafs, and this insects are narrow with folded wings. The only Hymenopterans wich fold the wings are Vespid wasps

Hi Karen, this are not Stingless bees but wasp. So they don´t belong to Pollinators Mission since wasps are not good pollinators