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Pollen specialist bee species are accurately predicted from visitation, occurrence and phylogenetic data - Oecologia An animal’s diet breadth is a central aspect of its life history, yet the factors determining why some species have narrow dietary breadths (specialists) and others have broad dietary breadths (genera...

Can 🌸visitation records be used to figure out whether a bee is a pollen diet specialist? New open access pub in Oecologia led by Colleen Smith & Katja Seltmann & w/ my Missouri State University #RussellLab undergrad team!

And the answer is... yes! Check it out 😇 ⬇️

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Learning to handle flowers increases pollen collection for bees but does not affect pollination success for plants Pollinator learning often increases flower handling efficiency and food collection (e.g. pollen or nectar), but whether learning thereby reduces pollinatio

Wondered how pollinator learning affects pollination for 🌺🌻🌼? More complex flowers 🌺🌻🌼 require more learning, and learning ⬆️pollen collection, but has NO effect on pollen transfer! New Behavioral Ecology pub from #RussellLab grad & undergrads; collab w/ Ashman Lab academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...

Learning to handle flowers increases pollen collection benefits for bees but does not affect pollination success for plants bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Ever wondered how pollinator learning affects pollination for 🌺🌻🌼? Bee learning differs among morphologically different 🌺🌻🌼 & ⬆️pollen collection, but NO effect on pollen transfer! New @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social from
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