Pollen Transport and Deposition by Bumble Bees in Erythronium: Influences of Floral Nectar and Bee Grooming
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Ecology
- Vol. 74 (2) , 329-341
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2260258
Abstract
(1) The transport of pollen from donor flowers by bumble bees was measured by examining deposition on stigmata of sequences of recipient flowers. The rate of de...This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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