Nectar and pollen

• Most native trees have white or cream flowers which are easily seen from the air.
• Flowers open and nectar forms early in the night especially in trees such as bloodwoods and turpentines.
• Flying-foxes lick nectar and pollen from the flowers.
• Nectar gives them energy and pollen provides protein.
• Their tongues are well adapted to their mostly liquid diet.
• Pollen grains stick to their fur and whiskers on their face.
• Pollen carried on a flying-fox which is chased away from one tree is rubbed off onto the flowers of another flowering tree.