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Yucca moths on a yucca flower. Photo by Alan Cressler. By Beatriz Moisset. One of the most extraordinary partnerships between an insect and the plant that it pollinates is that of the yucca and the yucca moth. They are so interdependent that one cannot live without the other. The moth’s larvae depend on the seeds of the yucca plant for food, and the yucca plant can only be pollinated by the yucca moth. In the central United States, soapweed yucca (Yucca glauca) is pollinated by a moth known as Tegeticulla yuccasella. A yucca moth is a type of moth found in yucca blossoms. They are shiny white in color and about 1 cm in length. Recent studies have shown that there are actually 2 species of … yucca moths, and only one of them actually pollinates the yucca plant. Since the larva develops into a moth that pollinates the yucca plant, the relationship is clearly beneficial to both partners. By comparison, the relationship between the Mexican jumping bean (Sebastiana pavoniana) and its symbiotic moth (Laspeyresia saltitans) is clearly one-sided. The female yucca moth is the sole pollinator of the yucca, and the yucca is the only caterpillar host plant of the yucca moth. In fact, the yucca and yucca moth share a symbiotic relationship that is so specialized, each yucca species is pollinated by only one type of Pollination. The yucca plant cannot pollinate itself — it relies on the yucca moth for cross-pollination. After the male and female yucca moths mate in springtime, the female gathers the sticky pollen from the anthers of a yucca flower. 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. One such relationship is that between the yucca plant and the yucca moth. Just as the honeybee and the flowers it pollinates need each other, so do the yucca and the yucca moth. Female yucca moths have a few days to deposit approximately one hundred eggs.
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