Claim · model-written summary
Beetles distinguished maximum and minimum displays on rewarding male trees.
- Taxon
- Myristica insipida
Myristica insipidat0 - Interactor
- BeetlesColeopterae0pollinator
- Outcome
- Beetles were demonstrated to be sensitive to differences in both maximum and minimum displayse0
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Verbatim
e0“Beetles were demonstrated to be sensitive to differences in both maximum and minimum displays on rewarding male trees”
t0“Myristica insipida”
Title
Joseph E. Armstrong American Journal of Botany 1997. doi:10.2307/2446051
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Male and female trees flowered synchronously with daily display maxima at 1800-0600 and minima at 1400-1800.
- Observation Rewarding male trees produced three times as many flowers as female trees.
- Association Longer-lived female flowers reduced the difference in display maxima to a factor of two.
- Observation Display minima did not differ between sexes.
- Observation Beetle captures were significantly higher at male trees during display maxima.
- Observation Capture rates did not differ between sexes during floral display minima.
- Observation Male-tree capture rates did not decline as predicted.
- Association Capture patterns were consistent with crepuscular activity.
- Observation Captures at both tree sexes were lower from 1800 to 0600 and 1000 to 1400.
- Observation Captures at both tree sexes were higher from 0600 to 1000 and 1400 to 1800, with significant differences only at female trees.
- Observation The authors infer that foraging errors are numerous and frequent and reflect overall foraging activity.