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Testing the Adaptive Significance of Personate Flowers in Penstemon (Plantaginaceae)
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 5, May 2026.Floral diversity across plant lineages reflects evolutionary shifts in mating strategy and pollinator specificity. The genus Penstemon contains a handful of species that display personate flowers—a peculiar bee‐pollinated floral type characterized by an upward bulge in the ventral portion of the corolla tube that obstructs the floral opening.
Trinity H. Depatie, Carolyn A. Wessinger
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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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Do camera light traps for moths provide similar data as conventional funnel light traps?
Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 498-510, May 2026.We recorded moths using a traditional collection method (funnel light traps, FLTs) and compared them with records made using automated camera light traps (CLTs). In direct comparison, the recorded moth species richness was similar, but the CLTs were able to leverage their advantages over longer periods of time and recorded more species.
Vivian Holzhauer +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Most pollinators visit flowers in the search of nectar rewards. However, as the floral nectar can often not be directly detected by pollinators, many flower visitors use secondary metabolites such as odor- or taste-proxies to anticipate nectar quantity ...
Alexander Haverkamp +5 more
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Do honeybees act as pollen thieves or pollinators of Datura wrightii?
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2018 Datura wrightii (Solanaceae), a common shrub in the southwestern United States, bears massive, white, night-blooming flowers that attract and reward hawkmoth pollinators.
Andrew C. McCall +5 more
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Spatial Representation of Feeding and Oviposition Odors in the Brain of a Hawkmoth
Cell Reports, 2018 Summary: Female hawkmoths, Manduca sexta, use olfactory cues to locate nectar sources and oviposition sites. We investigated if the behavioral significance of odorants is represented already in the antennal lobe, the first olfactory neuropil of the ...
Sonja Bisch-Knaden +4 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2013 We carried out a qualitative and quantitative inventory of the hawkmoth fauna (Sphingidae) of an area of semi-deciduous seasonal rainforest in the state of Pernambuco (Tapacurá Ecological Station), northeastern Brazil. Hawkmoths were sampled monthly from
LUIS M. PRIMO +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Olfactory systems evolved to detect and identify volatile chemical cues, in many cases across great distances. However, the precision of copulatory and oviposition behaviors suggest that they may be guided by olfactory cues detected by sensory systems ...
Christian Felix Klinner +8 more
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Gayana, 2001 An annotated checklist of the Sphingidae (hawkmoths) of Bolivia is presented. A total of 189 species and subspecies are confirmed. Locality data derived from specimens in the collections of the Department of Entomology of the Natural History Museum Noel ...
Ian J. Kitching +2 more
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Nature Communications, 2016 Foraging is energetically demanding for animals like hawkmoths that feed while flying. Here, Haverkamp et al. show that Manduca sexta has an innate preference for feeding on species of Nicotianawhose flower corolla length best matches the length of their
Alexander Haverkamp +4 more
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