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PRESS RELEASE<br>
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</b>FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<br>
July 1,
2015
Teresa Izzo<br>
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<div align="center"><b>Naturescape Gallery<br>
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The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents<br>
Nature Photographer, Hans Rilling<br>
<i>Flowers and Their Pollinators<br>
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BREWSTER, MA.</b> Naturescape Gallery at the Cape Cod
Museum of Natural History is proud to present <i>Flowers and Their
Pollinators</i> by Cape Cod nature photographer, conservationist and
biochemist, Dr. Hans Rilling from <b>August 1 – August 31, 2015.<br><br>
</b>Flowers have long been admired and used by humans to beautify their
environment, and also as objects of romance, ritual, religion, medicine
and as a source of food. A flower, or blossom, is also the
reproductive structure found in flowering plants. The biological function
of a flower is to effect reproduction, by providing a mechanism for the
union of sperm with eggs. Flowers give rise to fruit and seeds. Many
flowers have evolved to be attractive to animals, so as to cause them to
be vectors for the transfer of pollen<br>
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A pollinator is the biological agent (vector) that moves pollen from the
male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish
fertilization. Insect pollinators include bees, pollen wasps, a
variety of flies including bee flies and hoverflies; both butterflies and
moths; and flower beetles. Vertebrates, mainly birds, but also some
mammals – bats, monkeys, lemurs, possums, and rodents and some reptiles
such as lizards, pollinate certain plants. Among the pollinating
birds are hummingbirds, honeyeaters and sunbirds with long beaks; they
pollinate a number of deep-throated flowers.<br><br>
Come visit the Naturescape Gallery during the month of August to view
Hans Rilling’s stunning photographs of <i>Flowers and Their
Pollinators</i>!<br><br>
Free with Museum Admission<br>
For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext.
133.<br>
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Teresa Izzo<br>
Program Coordinator<br>
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<br>
869 Main St./Rte. 6A<br>
Brewster, MA 02631<br>
508-896-3867 x137<br>
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