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A preliminary report on the pollination of Sarracenia purpurea in a forest-swale ecotone
Title | A preliminary report on the pollination of Sarracenia purpurea in a forest-swale ecotone |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1983 |
Authors | O’Neil WSue |
Journal | Carnivorous Plant Newsletter |
Volume | 12 |
Pagination | 60-62, 74 |
Keywords | SARRACENIA |
Abstract | This study was conducted during the summer of 1979 while the author was a student at the University of Michigan Biological Station, near Pellston. Sarracenia purpurea flowers (161 flowers) were studied for a period of 29 hours during anthesis over a nine-day interim. Visitors to the flowers were collected in hope of establishing the pollinator(s) of the plant. Members of the Halictidae (a cosmopolitan family of small black or brightly metallic solitary bees) primarily were caught and thought to be acting as pollinators. Bombus terricola (bumblebee) females were also collected and may play a minor role in pollination. Other insects, including flies and beetles, were found as visitors, although they were unlikely pollinators. |