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Vibrating flowers uses huge amounts of energy, forcing bees to choose which plants to visit and affecting which ones are pollinated ...
Figure 1 Bumblebees use vibration to forage pollen on beaked and “nosey” Pedicularis. They always bite at the base of the flower’s beak and then buzz it. The pollen released from the beak’s terminus ...
Buzz pollination, or floral sonication, represents a distinctive pollination system in which certain bees generate high-frequency vibrations to extract pollen from specialised floral structures. In ...