• Question: What Heinrich suggested in his hypothesis?

    Asked by ale about Tricking the Bees: How Some Flowers Cheat on 12 Jun 2023
    • Photo: João Aguiar

      João Aguiar answered on 12 Jun 2023:


      Heinrich suggested that the more different were the cheater flowers, more time it would take for the bees to learn that all of the different cheater flowers did not have food. And this would promote more pollination, as the bees would have to go from flower to flower to lear that all of the flowers had no food, pollinating them in the process.

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