Pollinating Moth (1 Viewer)

[Chocky]

I have read that Moths and butterflies pollinate flowers by collecting pollen on their abdomen and taking it to the next flower thus pollinating it
I have this photo of a Six-spot burnet one minute it has a perfectly smooth proboscis and a minute or two later it seems to have collected what looks like pollen sacs.
I have never seen any Moth or Butterfly do this before
The photo on the lft shows a smooth proboscis and the photo on the right shows what looks like a collection of pollen sacs
What do you think please ?

 

[Chocky]

Found the answer
When they look for nectar in flowers like those in the images or orchids, the stamen on the plant will stick to the moths proboscis. It won't be able to take it off, but when it flies to another flower of the same type, it will rub onto it and it will fall off and pollinate the flower at the same time.

 

[Ladobe]

With quite a few plants their chief pollenizer is lepidopteran; and with some by a specific species of lepidoptera only.

In the moth world for example, here on the Mojave Desert Yucca schidigera is pollenized by a specific species of moth, Tegeticula yuccasella. And our other southwestern Yucca species by their own species of Tegeticula moth. It's a vital symbiotic relationship for both to survive. Tegeticula are genetically programmed to implant pollen into the cup like stigma to pollenate the flower. Without the right moth present the Yucca do not produce seed (like those in Afro-Eurasia) unless hand pollenated by man or accidentally by some other creature.