Bumble-bee learning selects for both early and long flowering in food-deceptive plants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1733, 2012, Pages 1538-1543

  Internicola, Antonina I ^a,b   Harder, Lawrence D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Avoidance learning; Deceit pollination; Flowering phenology; Orchid

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEE; FLOWER VISITING; FLOWERING; GROWING SEASON; MONOCOTYLEDON; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; SYMPATRY;

ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI; BOMBUS (GENUS); CALYPSO BULBOSA; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 84857963478     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1849     Document Type: Article

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