Do pollen thieves and nectar robbers reduce flower attractiveness to bumblebee pollinators in Impatiens oxyanthera?
Tag - nectar robbing
William Salter
Botanists set the relationship status of Plants, Pollinators and Antagonists to “It’s complicated”
What happens when a flower is eaten or pollinated? A study in the American Journal of Botany shows one interaction can impact in an unexpected way on another.
Alun Salt
Persecuted fruit bat may be key to Durian’s survival in Asia
The fruit bat has been persecuted due to the belief it destroyed crops of Durian. Now critically endangered, it seems that it is a key pollinator for the fruit tree.
Dale Maylea
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...
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