Data for: ENT532 Insect Diversity Collection (Jennings). Video of Apid Bees Nectar Robbing from Salvia Flowers
Outside of Head House II, right on Penn State's campus, you can see bees robbing a flower of its resources. Typically, when bees search for nectar, they insert their head and body into the flower, getting pollen everywhere while drinking nectar. And when they move on to the next flower, they disperse this pollen, so the flowers can reproduce. It benefits both the insect and the plant. However, some bees will steal from the plant, and bypass this process altogether. You can see in this video, a large bee is biting the side of the flower, so it can drink straight from the side of the petals. This is a phenomenon called nectar robbing. The bee gets resources without benefitting the flower at all.
This video was deposited for ENT 532: Insect Biodiversity and Evolution in Fall 2023.
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Work Title | Data for: ENT532 Insect Diversity Collection (Jennings). Video of Apid Bees Nectar Robbing from Salvia Flowers |
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License | No Copyright - U.S. |
Work Type | Video |
Publication Date | September 22, 2023 |
DOI | doi:10.26207/bw7y-y058 |
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Deposited | October 25, 2023 |
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