Mobile stamens enhance pollen dispersal by scaring floral visitors away
2022Summary Animal-pollinated plants have to get pollen to a conspecific stigma while protecting it from getting eaten. We provide experimental evidence that touch-sensitive stamens function in (i) enhancing pollen export and (ii) reducing pollen loss to thieves. Stamens of Berberis and
Deng-Fei Li +3 more
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DIVERSITY OF FLORAL VISITORS TO ECHINOPSIS ATACAMENSIS SUBSP. PASACANA (CACTACEAE)
Haseltonia, 2005(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Columnar cacti can be pollinated by various insect and vertebrate species, often showing either close adaptations to a single pollinator group, or a mixed pollination syndrome, depending on a variety of different animals for pollination.
Schlumpberger, Boris O. +1 more
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Floral visitors and ant scent marks: noticed but not used?
Ecological Entomology, 20121. Bee behaviour when visiting flowers is mediated by diverse chemical cues and signals, from the flower itself and from previous visitors to the flower. Flowers recently visited by bees and hoverflies may be rejected for a period of time by subsequent bee visitors. 2.
GAVIN BALLANTYNE, PAT WILLMER
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Variation Among Floral Visitors in Pollination Ability: A Precondition for Mutualism Specialization
Science, 1984The unusual floral biology of a neotropical herb provided an opportunity to determine that floral visitors varied significantly in their ability to effect fruit-set. Pollination efficiency and visitation frequency varied among Hymenoptera (five taxa), which were responsible for 99 percent of all fruits set.
D W, Schemske, C C, Horvitz
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Floral Visitors and Fruit Set in Afgekia sericea Craib (Fabaceae)
Tropical Natural History, 2004Afgekia sericea Craib (Fabaceae) is an endemic leguminous plant of Thailand. It is becoming rare due to fragmentation of its natural habitats which is probably leading to a reduction of reproductive success. This study investigated the interaction of the plant and its floral visitors in relation to fruit and seed set in three study sites which had ...
BOONSANONG CHOURYKAEW +3 more
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Pollination efficiency of cockroaches and other floral visitors of Clusia blattophila
Plant Biology, 2019Abstract Cockroaches have rarely been documented as pollinators. In this paper we examine whether this is because they might be inefficient at pollination compared to other pollinators. Clusia blattophila, a dioecious shrub growing on isolated rocky outcrops in French Guiana, is pollinated by Amazonina platystylata cockroaches and provides a valuable
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Floral Visitor Profile and Their Relative Abundance on Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esclentum M.)
UTTAR PRADESH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGYThe aim of the present study was to investigate the floral visitor profile, their reward forage from the inflorescence of buckwheat in addition to their abundance in different blooming phases of the crop. Totally 46 insect floral visitors were documented during different bloom phases during 2024, which included both Apis and non-Apis species, out of ...
B, Gagan +4 more
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Floral Visitors of a Colorado Endemic Chasmophyte, Telesonix jamesii (Saxifragaceae)
Western North American Naturalist, 2023Andrew G. Gaier +2 more
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Breeding system and floral visitors of Convallaria keiskei
Plant Species Biology, 2005KIWAKO ARAKI +2 more
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Pollen analysis and floral visitors in Commelina benghalensis L. (Commelinaceae)
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