One of the instincts of living things is to reproduce life, regardless of flora and fauna, there are different ways to reproduce. Flowers have two different ways, self-pollination, and cross-pollination. Cross pollination is a process of spreading pollen from flowers to flowers of the same species. Over 80% of pollen movements are helped by insects and birds (symbiotic relations), and few by the wind and water to pollination.

Bees and butterflies are common diurnal pollinators, bright-colored flowers attract insects to come and feed. The pollen from the flowers will stick on their hairy body during the feeding session and carried to the other flowers. Hence, news and media will picture bee as a model of hard work, and butterflies complement the flowers with their beautiful wings. During our childhood, through the media and television, we were given positive impressions about bees and butterflies, thus we start to love and pay more attention to them

At night, not all flowers are resting, Naturally, corresponding animals are feeding and pollinating flowers. Beetle, fly, bat, moths are among the most common nocturnal pollinators, and moths have the largest number of species of them all. There are more than 4,000 species of moths in Taiwan, while the commonly seen butterfly has only more than 400 species.

And according to Royal British; Biology Letters, new research discovers that moths’ pollination range at night are bigger and more complicated than the bee’s pollination in morning. Moth visits flowers which are rarely visited by bees, butterflies, flower flies and other diurnal pollinators. In other words, these plants rely on moths, and they have diverse pipeline for pollination. And this information is rarely known.