When a bee, or an ant, beetle, moth or butterfly visits a flower for food, it simultaneously, and without knowing it, performs another vital functions by carrying pollen from one plant to another. But not all flowers are visited by insects. A reliable guide to those that are, is their flamboyance, if the petals are large and colourful, if they smell sweet, it is because the plant needs to attract insects. Some plants have flowers which are graceful but not showy and therefore of no interest to insects. In this case the pollen in carried by the wind. Most flowers manufacture these minute grains called pollen which must be transferred to another flower of the same type before they can make seeds.
Which one of the following is correct?
Insects visit flowers because they

Options

A. want to carry pollen from one flower to another
B. are attracted by the bright colours
C. wish to obtain food
D. are in search of a mate.

Answer

C

Explanation

Insects visit flowrs because they are in search of food. That.s how they obtain their food from visiting one flower to another. Option .c. explains it all so that would be the correct answer. Just go through first sentence of this para.