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Plants use advertising-like strategies to attract bees with colour and scent

  • Written by Aphrodite Kantsa, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Aegean
Plants use advertising-like strategies to attract bees with colour and scentA honeybee (left), a scarab beetle (middle), and a fly (right) feeding on flowers of the white rock rose in a Mediterranean scrubland. Aphrodite Kantsa., Author provided

Watching plants and pollinators such as bees can teach us a lot about how complex networks work in nature.

There are thousands of species of bees around the world, and they all...