Enhancing the trap of lady's slippers: A new technique for discovering pollinators yields new data from Cypripedium parviflorum (Orchidaceae)

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Case, Martha A ^a   Bradford, Zachary R ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Andrena; Cypripedioideae; Food deceptive; Hymenoptera; Orchid; Pollination; Ribbon; Solitary bees

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; INSECT; MONOCOTYLEDON; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

ANDRENIDAE; APIDAE; APOIDEA; CYPRIPEDIOIDEAE; CYPRIPEDIUM PARVIFLORUM; HALICTIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MEGACHILIDAE; ORCHIDACEAE; TRIDENS;

EID: 64949085500     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00962.x     Document Type: Article

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