Bigger flowers, greater rewards: Plants adapt to climate disruptions to lure pollinators
There’s been a well-documented shift toward earlier springtime flowering in many plants as the world warms. The trend alarms biologists because it has the potential to disrupt carefully choreographed interactions between plants and the creatures—butterflies, bees, birds, bats and others—that pollinate them.
https://globalplantcouncil.org/bigger-flowers-greater-rewards-plants-adapt-to-climate-disruptions-to-lure-pollinators/ via @umichnews #botany #plantscience #plantsci #flowers #science
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Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, and shes gone
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Ok on a serious note here, this is kinda worrying, are insects not adapted to see certain colours so they can pollenate flowers etc.
Plants may adapt but surely insects need to do the same.
Good point, what is kinda worrying is our changing temperatures, we user to have cold winters, warmer springs, hot summers then coolder Autumn (Fall) and then cold winters again.
Now we seem to get a mixture of all of those, so our winter was more than 2 degrees above normal, so flowers / plants grow earlier, we then have wet / cold periods, (even frost)
So plants are having to try and adapt to this too.
@zleap your are right, however, in theory, because the flowers adapt to the needs of insects there is still hope!