Deceptive pollinator lures benefit from physical and perceptual proximity to flowers
Abstract Predators often use deception to exploit sensory and cognitive biases in prey. In pollinating insects, these include preferences for conspicuous colours associated with flowers, which predators such as orb‐web spiders display as prey lures. Theory predicts that deceptive signal efficacy sho...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley
2024-03-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11120 |