During the day, the nectar-filled Palmer’s Agave flowers are visited by bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, orioles, and even a few normally nocturnal moths like this White-lined Sphinx (Hyles lineata). The Figeater Beetle (Cotinis mutabilis) above was chewing into the base of the flowers to steal nectar without ever pollinating the flowers. Many of these daytime visitors to the flowers, especially the smaller ones like nonnative Honeybees (Apis mellifera) that can slip into the flowers without touching the anthers or pistils, are relatively poor pollinators of Palmer’s Agave flowers. Some of their larger daytime visitors do a bit better job of pollinating the flowers, but the most important pollinators of Palmer’s Agaves are their nighttime visitor.