Other Pollinators: Mexican long nosed bat (pic).
Along with the lesser long nosed bat and the long tongued bat pollinate agave in Mexico and other areas of central America.
The pic is taken at night and it shows how bats pollinate by dipping their heads into the flowers and going from flower to flower.
This is the main way in which agave is pollinated. Other artificial ways are very difficult and time consuming.
Agave is a plant that grows in hot and arid regions and from which syrups, tequila and other products are made.
Studies show that light pollution is deterring bats from visiting plants at night and thus they don’t pollinate them as often. Which is interrupting the reproductive cycle of agave, affecting bats also because agave is one of their main food sources.
Photo and Source: IDA (International Dark-Sky Association) Trivia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAuWAjrj68