Not all flower visitors are equally helpful to the flower; separately tracking bees that buzz to release pollen and bees that steal pollen from flowers in a bunch of Chamaecrista species shows how tracking visitation alone would misrepresent the interactions
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70758
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"Scientists Perfect Cooling Sunscreen from Pollen"
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warm lamb’s tongue and goat-cheese tortelloni dusted with fennel pollen
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Ich habe den täglichen automatischen Tröt für die maximalen #Pollenflugmessungen für #Berlin bis auf Weiteres ausgeschaltet.
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Nice demonstration of different pollinator species "pulling" floral morphology in different directions for optimal pollen deposition, in two South African wildflower species
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Pair of small cosmos, what I liked about this batch was seeing the little grains of pollen that had migrated to the petals
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Orchids are famous for specialized flowers that create species isolation by manipulating pollinators— but these ones don't have specialized pollinator relationships. Instead, they're isolated by pollen incompatibilities.
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf271