How asymmetric butterfly-lily flowers promote outcrossing (VIDEO)
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How asymmetric butterfly-lily flowers promote outcrossing
Animation illustrating how the transfer of pollen from a butterfly lily flower onto the wings of an insect ensures efficient pollen transfer between left- and right-morph flowers and vice versa. This is followed by live footage of a beefly (Australoechus hirtus) probing Wachendorfia paniculata flowers at Waylands, Darling, South Africa. Note how the wings beat against the opposing stamen and the style.
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Nicola Illing and Olivia Page-MacDonald
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