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Flower constancy in insect pollinators: Adaptive foraging behaviour or cognitive limitation?

As first noted by Aristotle in honeybee workers, many insect pollinators show a preference to visit flowers of just one species during a foraging trip. This “flower constancy” probably benefits plants, because pollen is more likely to be deposited on conspecific stigmas. But it is less clear why ins...

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Main Authors: Grüter, Christoph, Ratnieks, Francis L.W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Landes Bioscience 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306322/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22446521
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