Day 2 of #Invertefest!
Amplifying some cool insect papers that have crossed my feed recently!📣
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Q: Why do rewardless flowers still exist, rather than being shed? 🌺
A: 🤷♀️ We still don't know, but this test with bees & fake flowers show it's probably not "decoy" effects!
doi.org/10.1111/een....
Some plants change the colour of flowers which were already pollinated, and are now rewardless. We thought perhaps they were using a behavioural economic trick - the decoy effect - to make the…
