The removal of pollen by flower‐visiting insects is costly to plants, not only in terms of
production, but also via lost reproductive potential. Modern angiosperms have evolved …

Individuals in social insect colonies cooperate to perform collective work. While colonies
often respond to changing environmental conditions by flexibly reallocating workers to …

Animals have evolved foraging strategies to acquire blends of nutrients that maximize fitness
traits. In social insects, nutrient regulation is complicated by the fact that few individuals, the …

Plants sense a reduction in the red to far-red light ratio as a cue of light competition and
respond by accelerated growth and reproduction. These responses can be exploited in …

The ecological success of social insects is frequently ascribed to improvements in task
performance due to division of labour amongst workers. While much research has focused …

Bees foraging for floral rewards are one of our most thoroughly studied examples of
generalist foraging ecology. Generalist bees rely considerably on instrumental (associative) …

Dispersal is central to the ecology and evolution of spatially structured communities. While
flower microbial communities are spatially structured among floral organs, how dispersal …

Communication is often vital to the maintenance of mutualisms. In plant-pollinator
mutualisms, plants signal pollinators via floral displays, composed of olfactory, visual, and …

During buzz pollination, bees use their indirect flight muscles to produce vibrations that are
transmitted to the flowers and result in pollen release. Although buzz pollination has been …

Walnut (Juglans regia L.) is a monoecious species and although it exhibits self-compatibility,
it presents incomplete overlap of pollen shed and female receptivity. Thus, cross-pollination …