Claim · model-written summary
Plastic flowers matching Watsonia flower shape and nectar guides were significantly more attractive to flies.
Verbatim
e0“the iris W atsonia lepida”
e1“those that matched the shape and nectar guides of W atsonia flowers were significantly more attractive”
Title
The evolution of floral mimicry: identifying traits that visually attract pollinators
Jana Jersáková; Andreas Jürgens; Petr Šmilauer; et al. Functional Ecology 2012. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02059.x
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- Observation Flies intensively visited and probed plastic flowers with colors matching rewarding plants in a fly vision model.
- Association Inflorescence architecture and brightness made little difference to fly attraction.
- Observation Flowers of the three focal plant species were weakly scented and diverged in scent chemistry.
- Mechanism Matching rewarding plants in spectra, shape and nectar guides was interpreted as under strong selection in deceptive orchids.