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Floral Censuses and Surveys of Insect Visitors to Flowers, University of Michigan Biological Station, Summers 1984-1986
I investigated within- and between-year patterns of flowering phenology of plants and the insects that visited them in an isolated old field in northern Michigan, USA. The project goal was to document the dynamics of resource availabilty (each floral species produced nectar and/or pollen) and assess the implications of its temporal variation on the composition of the community of insects that exploited those resources. I censued the number of open flowers for each species in 50 4-m2 quadrats at 3- 5-day intervals from June-September 1984-1986, and in separate but contemporaneous surveys of the same quadrats recorded each insect species observed on any open flower. Census and survey details noted below.
ESM01 Fire and grazing modulate the structure and resistance of plant-floral visitor networks in a tallgrass prairie
Data from the study: Welti, E.A.R. and Joern, A. 2017. Fire and Grazing modulate the structure and resistance of plant-floral visitor networks in a tallgrass prairie. Oecologia 186: 447-458. EMS011 dataset contains counts of blooming inflorescences of plant species on 12 Konza watersheds in June-July of 2014; ESM012 dataset contains associations between flower-visiting insects and insect-pollinated flowering plants on 12 Konza watersheds collected in May-July of 2014; ESM013 dataset describes insects belonging to the orders of Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera collected in pantrap transects on 12 Konza watersheds collected in June - July of 2014.
Nectar chemistry is not only a plant's affair: floral visitors affect nectar sugar and amino acid composition
<p>This dataset contains data used in the analyses performed in the article entitled "Nectar chemistry is not only a plant’s affair: floral visitors affect nectar sugar and amino acid composition". The Excel file contains three sheets. 'Raw data' contains concentration of sugars, amino acids, pollen grains and yeast cells measured in several flowers and plants of <em>Gentiana lutea</em> subsp. <em>symphyandra</em>, belonging to different experimental treatments. 'Amino acid diversity' contains the concentration of specific protein and non-protein amino acids found in a subset of the above mentioned flowers. 'Pollen suspension test' contains the concentration of the same amino acids found in nectar after suspension of pollen of <em>G. lutea</em> at different time intervals (0, 1, 4, and 24 hours).</p>
Insect_floral_visitors_and_interactions_2022_data_Corsica_France
<p>Insect floral visitors of thermo-mediterranean shrubland maquis (Ajaccio, Corsica, France). This dataset (2025-09-23) is an update of the previous version, including new insect identifications and the addition of associated floral interactions (4012 occurences in 9 months in 2022). This dataset wa analysed in Maestracci, PY., Plume, L., de Zutter, C. & Gibernau, M. Seasonal and habitat variations of floral visitor networks in a Mediterranean maquis. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 19, 74 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-025-10179-5</p>
Fig. 2 in Pollination efficiency on Ipomoea bahiensis (Convolvulaceae): morphological and behavioural aspects of floral visitors
Fig. 2. Relation between the average width of bee species and the width of the internal area of the floral tube of Ipomoea bahiensis. Horizontal dashed lines = confidence interval of the internal area of the floral tube. Points = average visitor size, Bars = confidence interval. Species: (A) Ancyloscelis apiformes; (B) Apis mellifera; (C) Centris (Hemisiela) tarsata; (D) Euglossa (Euglossa) sp.; (E) Gaesischia (Gaesischia) cf. similis; (F) Melipona quadrifasciata; (G) Melitoma segmentaria; (H) Melitoma sp. 1; (I) Melitoma sp. 2; (J) Melitomella murihirta; (K) Ptilithrix cf. plumata; (L) Ptiloglossa sp.; (M) Protomeliturga turnerae; (N) Thygater (Thygater) analis; (O) Trigona spinipes; (P) Augochlora sp.; (Q) Pseudaugochlora pandora
Fig. 1 in Pollination efficiency on Ipomoea bahiensis (Convolvulaceae): morphological and behavioural aspects of floral visitors
Fig. 1. Comparison between the probabilities of fruit formation in different treatments of reproductive biology test and the control in Ipomoea bahiensis (Convolvulaceae), in Feira de Santana (BA). Control in natural conditions in the horizontal line, points = other treatments: apomixis (A), spontaneous self-pollination (SS), manual self-pollination (MS), geitonogamy (G), and xenogamy (X).
Data from: A multilayer network in an herbaceous tropical community reveals multiple roles of floral visitors
<p>Flower visitation does not necessarily mean pollination. In this sense, floral visitors can either act as mutualists (pollinators) or antagonists (floral robbers/thieves), indicating that these interactions are part of a continuum and that a visitor species can present multiple behaviours. We included both mutualistic and antagonistic interactions between plants and floral visitors in a multilayer network to explore the consequences (at the community level) of the dual roles played by flower visitors. The multilayer network of interactions was formed by herbaceous plants (12 species) and insects that visited their flowers (21 species) in an area of Atlantic Forest in Brazil from Jul 2015 to May 2016. The two layers presented similar structures, with high overlap between them. Similar to what was expected, the antagonistic layer was more modular and specialized than the mutualistic layer. Some visitor species exhibited highly central, dual roles, acting as both antagonists and mutualists. Most behaved consistently as mutualists in all their visits, especially bees, which formed a predominantly mutualistic group. Butterflies represented a mixed group in relation to their visits and flies made more antagonistic visits. This research represents an important step towards understanding the role of mutualisms and antagonisms in the structure of interaction networks between herbaceous plants and floral visitors in tropical environments.</p>
Successional and phenological effects on plant-floral visitor interaction networks of a tropical dry forest
<p>1. Plant-pollinator interactions are fundamental to ecosystem functioning; however, the role that succession and phenology have on these interactions is poorly understood, particularly in endangered tropical ecosystems. In highly diverse ecosystems such as tropical dry forests (TDF), variation in water and food availability determines the life cycles of animal pollinators. Therefore, understanding patterns of flowering phenology and plant-pollinator interactions across seasons in successional environments is key to maintaining and restoring TDF.</p> <p>2. We analysed the functional dynamics of plant-floral visitor interactions at the community level across a successional gradient in a Mexican TDF. We evaluated changes in the diversity of blooming plant species and floral visitors, phenological patterns, interaction network metrics, and beta diversity among early, intermediate, and late successional stages, between dry and rainy seasons.</p> <p>3. We found a higher diversity of blooming plant species and a higher richness of animal species in the intermediate and late successional stages. Peak abundance of floral visitors overlapped with flowering peaks in the late successional stages, but this was not consistently the case in the early and intermediate stages. Plant-floral visitors networks differed in structure according to successional stage and season, but specialisation metrics were higher in late successional stages. Interaction networks were more dissimilar between dry and rainy seasons within successional stages than within seasons between successional stages, suggesting connectivity across successional sites during each season. In addition, closely related plant species do not share the same pollination systems in any successional stage.</p> <p>4. Synthesis. Our results showed that plant-floral visitor interactions are dynamic and vary with flowering phenology and with successional changes in plant and animal diversity. Plant-floral visitor interactions were more diverse and specialised in the late successional stages. In the rainy season, differences in network structure among successional stages are due to interaction rewiring, while in the dry season, it is caused by species turnover. Our results demonstrate that seasonality plays a key role in community diversity and network structure and highlight the importance of conserving mature forests to ensure the maintenance of critical pollination interactions across all successional stages.</p>
Data from: The phenology and floral visitors of Timonius arabii
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Foliar herbivory pushes plant individuals towards the periphery of a plant-floral visitor interaction network
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Floral visitors and pollinators of Silene migjornensis
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Data and code from: The neglected pollinators: Settling moths are keystone floral visitors essential to network connectivity and tropical forest recovery
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Data from: A multilayer network in an herbaceous tropical community reveals multiple roles of floral visitors
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Insect floral visitors vary spatiotemporally and influence fruit production in mango orchards
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Impact of mulches on floral visitors in day-neutral strawberries and contribution of syrphid flies to strawberry pollination
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Successional and phenological effects on plant-floral visitor interaction networks of a tropical dry forest
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Haplopappus floral volatiles, flower visitors' preferences, and floral-visitors interaction outcomes along an Andean elevational gradient
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Data from: Exotic flower visitors exploit large floral trait spaces resulting in asymmetric resource partitioning with native visitors
1.Exotic species often cause severe alterations in native communities due to their ability to rapidly and efficiently utilize a broad spectrum of resources. In flower-visitor interactions, the breadth of resource use by native and exotic animals as well as the partitioning of resources among them is often estimated based on the number of (shared) plant species used as resources. However, whether a flower visitor is able to exploit plant resources has been shown to be delimited by functional floral traits such as morphological barriers or attractive or repellent chemical cues. Each of the ecologically relevant traits can be viewed as a dimension of a Hutchinsonian n-dimensional hypervolume, which characterizes the range of phenotypes exploitable by a species. 2.In this study, we quantified the sizes and overlaps of n-dimensional hypervolumes defined by floral traits that are exploitable by native and exotic flower visitors (afterwards referred to as exploited space, ES). In the heavily invaded Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, USA, we phenotyped 40 native and exotic plant species and recorded flower-visitor interactions. To quantify the size and overlap of ES, we applied dynamic range boxes (dynRB). 3.On average, exotic flower visitors were more generalized in resource use (larger ES) than natives ones, which is additionally indicated by the absence of native flower visitors on exotic flowering plant species. In particular, ES based on floral scent emission was larger for exotic flower visitors compared to native ones. The unevenly expanded ES of native and exotic animals led to an asymmetric overlap of floral ES where the exotic flower visitors shared only a small proportion of their ES with natives but occupied a large proportion of the ES of natives. 4.The asymmetry in resource use of native and exotic flower visitors suggests a potential advantage in resource exploitation of the latter, potentially explaining their success in Hawaiian ecosystems. Predicted range expansion of exotic plant and animal species may further increase the competition for and reduce the availability of resources for native animals. This may lead to further declines of native species and increasing threats for Hawaiian ecosystems.
Data from: Scale-dependent shifts in the species composition of flower visitors with changing floral density
Responses of flower-visiting animals to floral density can alter interactions between plants, influencing a variety of biological processes, including plant population dynamics and the evolution of flowering phenology. Many studies have found effects of floral or plant density on pollinator visitation rates at patch scales, but little is known about responses of flower visitors to floral densities at larger scales. Here, I present data from an observational field study in which I measured the effects of floral density on visitation to the annual composite Holocarpha virgata at both patch (4 m(2)) and site (12.6 ha) spatial scales. The species composition of flower visitors changed with floral density, and did so in different ways at the two scales. At the site scale, average floral density within patches of H. virgata or within patches of all summer-flowering species combined had a significant positive effect on per-flowerhead visitation by the long-horned bee Melissodes lupina and no significant effects on visitation by any other taxa. At the patch scale, per-flowerhead visitation by honeybees significantly increased whereas visitation by M. lupina often decreased with increasing floral density. For both species, responses to patch-scale floral density were strongest when site-scale floral density was high. The scale-dependence of flower visitor responses to floral density and the interactions between site- and patch-scale effects of floral density observed in this study underscore the importance of improving our understanding of pollinators' responses to floral density at population scales.
Exploitative competition for floral resources reduces sugar intake but differently impacts the foraging behaviour of two non-bee flower visitors
<p>Identifying which behavioural strategies maximize individual fitness is a key objective in ecology. Organisms are known to adapt their foraging behaviour to their environment in response to abiotic and biotic constraints, such as the distribution of resources or the presence of competitors. For instance, bees are known to avoid recently visited flowers and thus focus their foraging on more rewarding patches. Whether other flower-visiting insects adapt their foraging behaviour in response to exploitative competition for floral resources remains unknown. Here, we asked if a predatory hoverfly (<em>Episyrphus balteatus</em>) and a parasitoid (<em>Aphidius colemani</em>) 1) are physiologically impacted by flower resource limitation following exploitation of flowers by a competitor (either the bumblebee <em>Bombus terrestris</em> or <em>E. balteatus</em>); 2) have the ability to discriminate flowers that were previously exploited by a competitor; and 3) modify their foraging behaviour accordingly. <em>Episyrphus balteatus </em>and <em>A. colemani</em> individuals foraging on previously exploited flowers were found to be less concentrated in sugar compounds, especially in fructose and glucose, suggesting that previously exploited flowers contained less available sugars. Nevertheless, individuals did not avoid previously exploited patches in the choice experiment. On the contrary, <em>E. balteatus </em>females preferentially landed on inflorescences that had previously been exploited by conspecifics (but not by <em>B. terrestris</em>), while <em>A. colemani </em>did not show preferences between inflorescences. However, female hoverflies spent more time feeding on unexploited patches, suggesting that exploited patches were resource limited. To our knowledge, this study provides the first evidence of the use of social cues among <em>E. balteatus </em>individuals in food foraging strategies. It also shows that even insects with tiny nectar requirements, such as parasitoids, can suffer from heavy exploitative competition. Such results may have applied consequences for the understanding of natural enemy conservation, in particular in agroecosystems where competition with honeybees may be important.</p>
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