How and why do bees buzz? Implications for buzz pollination

M Vallejo-Marín - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Buzz pollination encompasses the evolutionary convergence of specialized floral
morphologies and pollinator behaviour in which bees use vibrations (floral buzzes) to …

Plant ecoacoustics: a sensory ecology approach

H Appel, R Cocroft - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
Many interactions of plants with the environment have an acoustic component, including the
actions of herbivores and pollinators, wind and rain. Although plants have long been tested …

Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz-pollinated Solanum flowers

M Vallejo-Marín, CE Pereira Nunes, AL Russell - Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The widespread evolution of tube-like anthers releasing pollen from apical pores is
associated with buzz pollination, in which bees vibrate flowers to remove pollen. The …

Structural dynamics of real and modelled Solanum stamens: implications for pollen ejection by buzzing bees

M Jankauski, R Ferguson… - Journal of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An estimated 10% of flowering plant species conceal their pollen within tube-like anthers
that dehisce through small apical pores (poricidal anthers). Bees extract pollen from …

Parselmouth for bioacoustics: automated acoustic analysis in Python

Y Jadoul, B De Boer, A Ravignani - Bioacoustics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Bioacoustics increasingly relies on large datasets and computational methods. The need to
batch-process large amounts of data and the increased focus on algorithmic processing …

Floral scent changes in response to pollen removal are rare in buzz-pollinated Solanum

CD Moore, DI Farman, T Särkinen, PC Stevenson… - Planta, 2024 - Springer
Main conclusion One of seven Solanum taxa studied displayed associations between pollen
presence and floral scent composition and volume, suggesting buzz-pollinated plants rarely …

[PDF][PDF] Bumblebees' flower preferences are associated with floral abundance and buzz frequency when buzz-pollinating co-flowering plants.

W Huang, M Vallejo-Marín, DW Inouye… - Entomologia …, 2024 - plant-evolution.org
Buzz-pollination is used by some bees to expel pollen through vibrating flowers. Yet, little is
known about the determinants influencing bee preferences among buzz-pollinated flowers …

Turgor pressure affects transverse stiffness and resonant frequencies of buzz-pollinated poricidal anther

M Alvord, J McNally, C Casey, M Jankauski - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Several agriculturally valuable plants store their pollen in tube-like poricidal anthers, which
release pollen through buzz pollination. In this process, bees rapidly vibrate the anther using …

Carpenter bee thorax vibration and force generation inform pollen release mechanisms during floral buzzing

M Jankauski, C Casey, C Heveran, MK Busby… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Approximately 10% of flowering plant species conceal their pollen within tube-like poricidal
anthers. Bees extract pollen from poricidal anthers via floral buzzing, a behavior during …

Vapor pressure deficit control and mechanical vibration techniques to induce self-pollination in strawberry flowers

H Lee, M Cui, B Lee, J Myung, J Shin, C Chun - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Background Pollination strategies to supplement or replace insect pollinators are needed to
produce marketable strawberry fruits in indoor vertical farms. To ensure the self-pollination …