Comfrey's Nectar Thieves
Comfrey's flowers invite burglary. Their bell-shaped corollas conceal nectar deep inside, but some bumblebees bite through the base rather than enter through the opening where pollen transfer normally occurs. The shortcut skips payment. Botanists call this behavior nectar robbing, a name that captures the broken exchange without proving that every bitten flower suffers a reproductive loss.The bite...More
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