Flower constancy optimal strategy

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Bees actively adjust flower choice based on color and distance: Updating 'flower constancy' beyond Darwin's theory

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Darwin speculated that flower constancy was a passive response to the effort involved in remembering the different flower characteristics.

When different plant species are highly mixed, focusing on one type of flower increases the time spent moving between them, causing pollinators to skip over other species.

When species have similar flower colors or shapes, pollinators should further lower their flower constancies.

By contrast, when plants are clustered in groups, focus on a single flower type simultaneously reduces the costs of both memory retrieval and travel between flowers.

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