[SEMCO] Naturescape Gallery presents Hans Rilling / August

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
July 1, 
2015 
Teresa Izzo
   508-896-3867 ext. 137
tizzo at ccmnh.org
Naturescape Gallery
at the
The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Nature Photographer, Hans Rilling
Flowers and Their Pollinators


BREWSTER, MA.    Naturescape Gallery at the Cape 
Cod Museum of Natural History is proud to present 
Flowers and Their Pollinators by Cape Cod nature 
photographer, conservationist and biochemist, Dr. 
Hans Rilling from August 1 – August 31, 2015.

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
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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.

Come visit the Naturescape Gallery during the 
month of August to view Hans Rilling’s stunning 
photographs of Flowers and Their Pollinators!

Free with Museum Admission
For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.
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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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