Table 5.

Pollinaria placement on flower visiting insects to nine asclepiad species

	Asclepias cucullata	Asclepias woodii	Aspidonepsis diploglossa	Miraglossum pilosum	Miraglossum verticillare	Pachycarpus natalensis	Sisyranthus trichostomus	Xysmalobium gerrardii	Xysmalobium involucratum
Mouthparts	0	5	0	0	6	12	111	29	6
% inserted	–	40	–	–	100	66	25	59	50
Leg 1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	67	19
% inserted	–	–	66	–	–	–	–	33	58
Leg 2	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	15	45
% inserted	–	0	100	–	–	–	–	67	42
Leg 3	0	18	1	0	0	0	0	21	36
% inserted	–	33	100	–	–	–	–	33	50
Body	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	10
% inserted	–	50	–	–	–	–	–	100	50
Sample size of insects with pollinaria (total insects examined)	0 (6)	10 (20)	3 (7)	0 (1)	4 (15)	6 (23)	30 (74)	58 (136)	6 (17)

The plain numbers are the number of pollinaria recorded from the sample of insects specified in the final row of each column. The ‘% inserted’ rows in bold indicate the proportion of the pollinaria which had one or more pollinia missing, indicating that those pollinia had been trapped by the guide rails of flowers and pollination had been carried out.