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Female Sugarbird. Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden #77761913
Description
Female sugar bird on a strelitzia flower. Its prime source of sustenance is the nectar from flowers like strelitzia and protea species (Leucospermum and Mimetes) which makes the Sugar bird an important pollinator of these plants. It also feeds on the nectar of other plants and feeds on insects including aphids, grasshoppers, beetles, flies etc.