When it comes to bee tongues, length is proportional to the size of the bee, but heritage sets the proportion. Estimating this hard to measure trait helps scientists understand bee species' resiliency to change. Ecologists will report on this and other pollination research news at the Ecological Society of America's 2014 Annual Meeting in Sacramento, Cal., August 10-15.
Read the story: http://www.esa.org/esablog/research/for-bees-and-flowers-tongue-size-matters/ More pollinators at ESA's 2014 Annual Meeting: http://esa.org/am/info/press/topics/#pollinators Presentation: Contributed talk 122-4 - The allometry of bee tongue length and its uses in ecology Thursday, August 14, 2014: 2:30 PM Room 315, Sacramento Convention Center Speaker: Ignasi Bartomeus , Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain [email protected] Session: Contributed talks 102: Pollination I. Thursday, August 14, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM. Room 315. ******** Liza Lester Communications Officer Ecological Society of America Washington, DC (202) 833-8773 ext. 211 Ecotone: news and views on ecological science Tweeting @esa_org
