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Diversity, 2022 Oenothera speciosa Nutt. is a non-indigenous plant that is widespread in Europe, South America, Asia, and Oceania. Although in its native range it is rarely pollinated by sphingid moths, in Europe and Asia, it was found to be associated with the ...
Andrea Bonifazi +2 more
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Pheromone Transduction in Moths [PDF]
, 2010 Calling female moths attract their mates late at night with intermittent release of a species-specific sex-pheromone blend. Mean frequency of pheromone filaments encodes distance to the calling female.
Monika Stengl
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Resilience of floral scent emission after florivory
Plant Biology, EarlyView.Florivory is thought to affect floral traits, impacting pollination. However, our data suggest a stability in post‐florivory scent emission, which may guarantee the maintenance of pollinator visitation regardless of florivory, indicating a resilience of natural systems with multiple and simultaneous interactions. Created in BioRender. Tunes, P.
P. Tunes +4 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Flower phenotype may diverge within plant lineages when moving across “pollinator climates” (geographic differences in pollinator abundance or preference).
Marcela Moré +4 more
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Petiolate wings: effects on the leading-edge vortex in flapping flight [PDF]
, 2017 The wings of many insect species including crane flies and damselflies are petiolate (on stalks), with the wing planform beginning some distance away from the wing hinge, rather than at the hinge.
Bomphrey, R J, Knowles, K, Phillips, N
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Hawkmoth flight stability in turbulent vortex streets [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2013 SummaryShedding of vortices is a common phenomenon in the atmosphere over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. However, it is unclear how these vortices of varying scales affect the flight performance of flying animals. In order to examine these interactions we trained seven hawkmoths (Manduca sexta) (wingspan ~9 cm) to fly and feed in a wind ...
Victor Manuel, Ortega-Jimenez +3 more
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Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 1286-1298, May 2026.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The dependence on biotic pollination may constrain plant phenological responses because flowering time ultimately defines reproductive success. We proposed a local‐scale study combining long‐term phenology and experimental data to evaluate how a key functional trait—the
Amanda Eburneo Martins +3 more
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In situ tip-recordings found no evidence for an Orco-based ionotropic mechanism of pheromone-transduction in Manduca sexta. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The mechanisms of insect odor transduction are still controversial. Insect odorant receptors (ORs) are 7TM receptors with inverted membrane topology. They colocalize with a conserved coreceptor (Orco) with chaperone and ion channel function. Some studies
Andreas Nolte +7 more
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HAWKMOTHS KEEP TRACK OF LUNCH [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2007 ![][1] Hovering hawkmoths dining from flowers won't have to chase their meals over long distances, but if the wind picks up they need to track flower movements so that they can keep hovering in the best spot and feed effectively.
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Hawkmoth pollination of Mirabilis longiflora (Nyctaginaceae) [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1983 A guild composed of very-long-tubed hawkmoth flowers (nectar tubes, 9 cm or more long), belonging to different genera and families, occurs in the American Southwest. Our knowledge of the hawkmoth associates of these flowers is fragmentary.
V, Grant, K A, Grant
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