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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2024

The Hole Truth: Why Do Bumble Bees Rob Flowers More Than Once?

Judith L Bronstein, Goggy Davidowitz, Elinor M Lichtenberg, Rebecca E Irwin

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Judith L BronsteinDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9214-1406
Goggy DavidowitzDepartment of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5769-2552
Elinor M LichtenbergDepartment of Biological Sciences and Advanced Environmental Research Institute, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2729-4534
Rebecca E IrwinDepartment of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1394-4946

Funding

National Science Foundation (USA) DEB-1354061 DEB-1641243
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary nectar-robbers feed through holes they make in flowers, often bypassing the plant's reproductive organs in the process. In many robbed plants, multiple holes are made in a single flower. Why a flower should be robbed repeatedly is difficult to understand: a hole signals that a nectar forager has already fed, which would seem likely to predict low rewards. We tested three explanations for this pattern in

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bumble beescheatingCorydalis caseanaforagingmutualismnectarnectar robbingpollination

Identifiers

PMID39273991
PMCPMC11396959

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