The "yucca flower" is the state flower of New Mexico. Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the agave family, Agavaceae. Its 40-50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers.
Yucca only blooms once a year and typically anywhere from the middle of summer to early fall. When yucca blooms depends on what variety it is.
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The Yucca Moth can only lay it's eggs in the yucca flowers, but it helps the yucca, fertilizing the flowers. The yucca needs the moth to spread pollen, and the moth needs the yucca for a place to lay it's eggs. This is mutualism.
The Yucca bears white flowers
The yucca moth lives on the yucca plant and does no travel to other flowers or plants. Adult moths live inside the flowers and the larval stages are all completed inside the yucca fruits as they develop.
Yucca flower, the blossom of the yucca plant.
Yucca flowers
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The female yucca moth chooses to go to nearby yucca plant in order to get the pollen from the plant. The moth then starts to lay eggs in the large flowers of the yucca plant.
It's a mutualistic relationship. The yucca plant (Mexico, Caribbean and Southern US) can't pollinate itself to grow more seeds. The yucca moth pollinates the plant and lays its eggs inside the plant. When the moth larvae hatch, they feed on the seeds of the yucca plant, but the plant only lets a certain number grow, so that they don't eat all the seeds. So by pollinating the plant, the moth develops food for its larvae and the plant as well as the moth can survive and continue. And the adult moths emerge from their underground cocoons exactly when the yucca plants are in flower, in early summer.
any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America
The yucca plant. There are different species, but most have flowers.
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the yucca moth benefits with the yucca plant so the yucca moth can get food from the yucca plant .