You're familiar with the idea that pollinators look at flower colour, but what about pollen colour? New research shows pollinators may have a much more significant influence than thought.
Tag - Bombus
Fi Gennu
Pollination quantity and purity
If you share a pollinator with another plant species in your location, is it a good idea to flower at the same time? You can only use pollen from another plant in the same species. If a bee arrives loaded with another...
What happens if bees disappear?
New research shows that loss of a group of pollinators doesn't always have a predictable decline in pollination success.
Alun Salt
Robbed, yet replenished: nectar, pollination and reproduction in an alpine plant
Plant-robber-pollinator interactions are studied in an alpine plant, Salvia przewalskii, that is pollinated by long-tongued Bombus religiosus and short-tongued B. friseanus, and robbed by B. friseanus. Ye et al. find...
botanyone
Buzz pollination, floral traits and pollen release
Bumble-bee workers assort themselves among Pedicularis species according to size, adjusting their buzzing behavior in relation to the species' floral traits
Flow cytometric analysis of bee pollen loads
Kron et al. use flow cytometry to characterize pollen loads from individual bees, using DNA content as a species marker,
Does your garden taste as good as it looks?
Bees in the UK have lost nearly all their natural habitat and gardens now provide a vital source of food, but gardeners are planting more exotic plants in their gardens. Do native bees share our adventurous tastes...
