What do flying-foxes eat?
Their main source of food is nectar and pollen from the flowers of native trees, such as the many species of eucalyptus, as well as turpentines, paperbarks, banksias. They also eat fruit from many rainforest plants, such as figs and lilly pilly. They chew the fruit to extract the juice and spit out the fibre and drop the big seeds. They swallow the juice and some small seeds up to 4 mm in diameter. They also chew leaves of plants such as mangroves and figs. At times they feed on fruit and flowers of plants brought into Australia from other parts of the world.
