Impact of flower-dwelling crab spiders on plant-pollinator mutualisms

There was no significant indicator plant species, i.e. having an IndVal above the 0.5 threshold. 2015), species richness remained stable for spider

Tests were performed for both spiders and carabids using total activity-density, species richness and traits as dependent variables, management (cut or uncut: each cut plot

flowering order (early vs. late) and corolla colour similarity (dissimilar vs. similar) of deceptive relative to rewarding inflores- cences on bumblebee visitation.. Shown are

Reasons for the difference in behaviour may lie in the different sizes of the pollinator groups (Dukas & Morse 2003, 2005); the generally smaller solitary bees and syrphid

In order to test the three hypotheses, we placed outdoors hite and yellow crab spiders (M. vatia) on three different oloured flower species—white, yellow and violet—resulting n

visits duration Hylaeus sp.. visits duration Colletes

However spider UV reflection, spider size and spider movement determined honeybee behaviour: the probability that honeybees landed on spider-harbouring inflorescences was greatest

On the basis of raw data, we demonstrated that some groups of bees have close relationships with certain botanical families, such that the diversity of some plant groups