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Intrafloral Color Modularity in a Bee-Pollinated Orchid [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Flower color has been studied in different ecological levels of organization, from individuals to communities. However, it is unclear how color is structured at the intrafloral level. In bee-pollinated flowers, the unidirectional gradient in color purity and pollen mimicry are two common processes to explain intrafloral color patterns. Considering that
João Marcelo Robazzi Bignelli Valente Aguiar +6 more
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The antiquity and evolutionary history of social behavior in bees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 A long-standing controversy in bee social evolution concerns whether highly eusocial behavior has evolved once or twice within the corbiculate Apidae. Corbiculate bees include the highly eusocial honey bees and stingless bees, the primitively eusocial ...
Sophie Cardinal, Bryan N Danforth
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Distribution patterns of orchid bees in xeric and mesic habitats on a tropical mountaintop
Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2023 Most studies evaluating insect communities along climatic gradients in mountain regions have overlooked the relevance of the contrasting effects of xeric and mesic habitats on species distribution and richness. Mesic zones in xeric ecosystems can provide
Catarina Dias De Freitas +5 more
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Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, 2023 Knowledge on the geographical distribution of orchid bee species in Colombia and most of the Neotropics depends on monitoring and sample methodologies implemented and facilities to access diverse natural regions.
A. Parra-H, G. Nates-Parra
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A contribution to the knowledge of the orchid bee fauna of the Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Peru (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) [PDF]
Check List, 2012 This study provides a list of orchid bees collected from the Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Peru. Specimens were captured by luring them to aromatic baits, eucalyptus oil and methyl salicylate, over a five day period in June, 2011. A total
Reed Niemack +3 more
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The Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genomes of the Facultatively Eusocial Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2017 Bees provide indispensable pollination services to both agricultural crops and wild plant populations, and several species of bees have become important models for the study of learning and memory, plant–insect interactions, and social behavior.
Philipp Brand +5 more
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Orchid bees respond to landscape composition differently depending on the multiscale approach
Landscape Ecology, 2022 Multiscale approaches are essential for understanding ecological processes and detecting the scale of effect. However, nested multiscale approaches retain the effect of the landscape attributes from the smaller spatial scales into the larger ones.
Lázaro da Silva Carneiro +5 more
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bioRxiv, 2022 Traits that mediate reproductive isolation between species, such as those involved in mate choice and/or recognition, are predicted to experience stabilizing selection towards the species mean.
Kathy Darragh +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2017 To investigate species composition, diversity, richness, and monthly abundance of orchid bees in different types of dense rainforest, placed in different altitudes, the orchid bees were collected for 11 months in three vegetation types: dense montane ...
Willian Moura Aguiar +3 more
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Suction feeding in orchid bees (Apidae: Euglossini) [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2004 Energy flux during nectar feeding is maximized at an intermediate sugar concentration, the value of which depends on the morphology of the feeding apparatus and the modality of fluid feeding. Biomechanical models predict that a shift from capillary-based lapping to suction feeding will lead to a decrease in this optimal sugar concentration.
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