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Description
Artist Bernd Heinrich illustrates his writing with artwork. In this chart of flowers that Bees visit, Heinrich notes that each flower “communicates to the pollinators by different signals” related to color, scent, and geometric patterns that provide rewards of pollen, nectar, or both to the Bees.
The rise of insects’ using Gymnosperms, or seed-producing plants, as food transferred spores from plant to plant. This started the plants’ flower evolution where the animals’ attractiveness to, and manipulation of flowers ushered in an animals’ preferences and behavior on flower structure, or morphology, as issues in plants’ reproduction.
Animals’ behaviors became selective agents for the evolving symbiotic plant-animal associations, leading to evolution of flower variety and complexity with no end in sight in shape, color, scent and food or other reward.
About This Item
- Title: "Plants visited by Bees," Weld, 1980
- Creator: Bernd Heinrich
- Creation Date: circa 1980
- Subject Date: circa 1980
- Location: Weld, Franklin County, ME
- Media: Pencil and watercolor on paper
- Local Code: 2018.213.424
- Object Type: Image
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