B. Anderson et al. Pollen wars: Explosive pollination removes pollen deposited from previously visited flowers. The American Naturalist, in press, 2024. doi: 10.1086/732797.

When a bee visits a star-shaped borage flower (right), the underside of its abdomen touches the flower’s pollen receptor, or stigma (red). L. Koch, K. Lunau and P. Wester/PLOS ONE 2017 ...

After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that match the position of flower pollen-sacs and stigmas, according to a study published Sept. 6, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...