Bees associate warmth with floral colour
Article Abstract:
Experiments are conducted to determine whether bees associate floral colour with warmth of flowers and whether flowers modulate their temperature to encourage bees' visit for the purpose of pollination. Findings indicate that the warmth of the flowers might provide an additional incentive to the pollinator bees apart from the nutrition, and suggest reasons for the evolution of specific floral structures, and the connection between floral sensory signals, floral warmth and pollinator behavior.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
The birds and the bees
Article Abstract:
The Hylaeus species of tiny native solitary bees were recently found to be capable of opening Peraxilla tetrapetala buds. Such finding is the first documented case of an invertebrate which can open the buds of flowers that are normally pollinated by birds. Although the bee was found to be inefficient in pollen transfer, its ability to pop the buds open can cause doubling of the number of ripened seeds among the flowers.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy
Article Abstract:
A test was conducted on bumblebees in a color-discrimination task on a virtual flower meadow. The test shows that some bees make rapid choices, but with low precision and other bees are highly accurate, but are slower.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Ministers agree to act on warnings of soaring temperatures in Africa. All eyes on Addis
- Abstracts: Plate-boundary deformation associated with the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. What happened and what's next?
- Abstracts: Nesting habitat characteristics of the marbled murrelet in central California redwood forests. Local survival of marbled murrelets in Central California: role of oceanographic processes, sex and radiotagging
- Abstracts: Planets are round will that do? Physicists plan search for the known unknowns. 'You can't have a mission without a camera'
- Abstracts: Let's replicate. Kyoto for commuters. Carbon tax lite