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Robbing Behavior in Honey Bees

EDIS, 2015
Western honey bee workers can invade and steal honey/nectar from other colonies or sugar/corn syrup from feeders used to deliver syrup to other colonies. This is called “robbing” behavior. Robbing behavior typically involves the collection of nectar and
Ryan Willingham, Jeanette Klopchin, James D. Ellis   +2 more
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Consequences of secondary nectar robbing for male components of plant reproduction [PDF]

American Journal of Botany, 2018
Premise of the StudyOrganisms engage in multiple species interactions simultaneously. While pollination studies generally focus on plants and pollinators exclusively, secondary robbing, a behavior that requires other species (primary robbers) to first create access holes in corollas, is common. It has been shown that secondary robbing can reduce plants'
Sarah K, Richman, Rebecca E, Irwin, John T, Bosak, Judith L, Bronstein   +3 more
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Effects of nectar robbing on male and female reproductive success of a pollinator-dependent plant. [PDF]

Ann Bot, 2016
Nectar robbers affect host fitness in different ways and by different magnitudes, both directly and indirectly, and potentially constitute an important part of pollination interactions. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of nectar robbing on several variables that characterize the reproductive success of Lonicera etrusca, a pollinator ...
Rojas-Nossa SV, Sánchez JM, Navarro L.
europepmc   +4 more sources

The Hole Truth: Why Do Bumble Bees Rob Flowers More Than Once? [PDF]

Plants
Primary nectar-robbers feed through holes they make in flowers, often bypassing the plant’s reproductive organs in the process. In many robbed plants, multiple holes are made in a single flower.
Judith L. Bronstein, Goggy Davidowitz, Elinor M. Lichtenberg, Rebecca E. Irwin   +3 more
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Is bee‐avoidance by bird‐pollinated flowers driven by nectar robbing in Erica?

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 1046-1060, April 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Nectar robbing (consuming nectar from a perforated flower without pollinating) generally negatively affects plant fecundity, and plants exhibit multiple mechanisms in defence.
Anina Coetzee, Colleen L. Seymour, Claire N. Spottiswoode, Michael D. Pirie, Timotheüs van der Niet   +4 more
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Realized tolerance to nectar robbing: compensation to floral enemies in Ipomopsis aggregata. [PDF]

Ann Bot, 2009
Although the ecological and evolutionary consequences of foliar herbivory are well understood, how plants cope with floral damage is less well explored. Here the concept of tolerance, typically studied within the context of plant defence to foliar herbivores and pathogens, is extended to floral damage.
Irwin RE.
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Diverse nectar robbers on Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae) [PDF]

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2015
This study records for the first time three mammal species as nectar robbers on the ginger Alpinia roxburghii Sweet. We examined the behavior of nectar robbers and compared with earlier studies on a single plant species.
Xiaobao Deng, Wen Deng, Alice Catherine Hughes, Dharmalingam Mohandass   +3 more
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Nectar robbing rather than pollinator availability constrains reproduction of a bee‐flowered plant at high elevations

Ecosphere, 2022
Abiotic factors are generally assumed to determine whether species can exist at the extreme ends of environmental gradients, for example, at high elevations, whereas the role of biotic interactions is less clear. On temperate mountains, insect‐pollinated
Patrick L. Kohl, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter   +1 more
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The ethics of theft: Reevaluating the impacts of floral larceny on plant reproductive success [PDF]

Plant Diversity
Plants and their interaction partners offer unparalleled views of evolutionary ecology. Nectar larceny, entailing nectar extraction without pollinating, is thought to be an example of a harmful, antagonistic behavior, but the precise consequences of ...
Jin-Ru Zhong, Xiao-Fang Jin, Michael C. Orr, Xiao-Qing Li, Yong-Deng He, Sheng-Wei Wang, Qing-Feng Wang, Chun-Feng Yang, Zhong-Ming Ye   +8 more
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MORPHOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS AND NECTAR ROBBING IN THREE ANDEAN BUMBLE BEE SPECIES (HYMENOPTERA, APIDAE, BOMBINI) [PDF]

Caldasia, 2006
We report differences in foraging behavior of three Andean bumblebee species onflowers of Digitalis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae). Bombus atratus was a potentialpollinator while B. hortulanus and B. rubicundus collected nectar by robbing throughholes.
RIVEROS ANDRE J., HERNÁNDEZ EDGAR J., NATES-PARRA GUIOMAR   +2 more
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