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Toxic Nectar Deters Floral Robbery – Flowers Control Bee Behaviour

September 22, 2017Resourcesandrej

Nectar robbing bumblebees are detered from visiting and feeding from Aconitum flowers via alkaloids which are more distasteful to nectar robbers than to pollinating honeybees. Obviously, plants can finely control behaviour of insects using mixtures of alkaloids and other non-nutrient compounds enriched within their nectar exudates.

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(17)30870-9
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/nature/2017/08/nectar-robbers-how-flowers-discriminate-against-wrong-kind-bees

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