Abstract Background and Aims Among the various floral traits involved in pollinator attraction
and potentially under selection mediated by pollinators, floral scent/fragrance has been less …

Pollination is often regarded as a mutualistic relationship between flowering plants and
insects. In such a relationship, both partners gain a fitness benefit as a result of their …

A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their
relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world. The …

This paper comprises Part II of a review of flower visitation and pollination by Diptera
(myiophily or myophily). While Part I examined taxonomic diversity of anthophilous flies …

Abstract Background and Aims Large clades of angiosperms are often characterized by
diverse interactions with pollinators, but how these pollination systems are structured …

Flowers are complex structures, synchronously displaying both olfactory and visual
signals/cues in the context of a particular floral morphology, that also vary in resource …

Pollination of several angiosperms is based on deceit. In such systems, the flowers advertise
a reward that ultimately is not provided. We report on a previously unknown …

Four to six percent of plants, distributed over different angiosperm families, entice pollinators
by deception [1]. In these systems, chemical mimicry is often used as an efficient way to …

Ceropegia species (Apocynaceae) have deceptive pitfall flowers and exploit small flies as
pollinators, supposedly by chemical mimicry. Only preliminary data on the composition of …

Pleurothallidinae (Epidendreae) are a megadiverse Neotropical orchid subtribe comprising>
5100 species, most of which are probably pollinated by Diptera. The role of pollinators as …