Pictured here is the #bumblebee #Bombus #pascuorum on the #flowerhead of #Centaurea #stoebe in #Berlin. J. G. Pattrick (2003) demonstrated that bumblebees strike a #balance between #floral #biomechanics and #nectarquality, #maximizing #energyyield rather than #energyefficiency.
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Reference
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108071
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