Wild bees preferentially visit Rudbeckia flower heads with exaggerated ultraviolet absorbing floral guides
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Wild bees preferentially visit Rudbeckia flower heads with exaggerated ultraviolet absorbing floral guides
Here, we report on the results of an experimental study that assessed the visitation frequency of wild bees to conspecific flowers with different sized floral guides. UV absorbent floral guides are ubiquitous in Angiosperms, yet surprisingly little is known about conspecific variation in these guides and very few studies have evaluated pollinator response to UV guide manipulation. This is true ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Open
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2046-6390
DOI: 10.1242/bio.20146445