... an optimal hair-erection pattern to balance nectar intake and viscous drag. Honeybee Asynchronous hair erection Section-wise wettability Nectar feeding References Amirouche , F. , Zhou , Y. and Johnson , T. ( 2009 ). Current micropump technologies and their biomedical...

... Anopheles gambiae malaria mosquito insect gustation taste neurone nectar feeding feeding deterrent Plant-derived sugar is the basic food of adult mosquitoes ( Foster, 1995 ), usually including sucrose, which is also the most common sugar in nectar, along with fructose and glucose ( Wykes, 1952...

..., by increasing the likelihood of further matings, which in turn causes increased fecundity( Torres-Vila et al., 2004 ). Such enhanced effects on fecundity should be accounted for in studies on female fitness and benefits of nectar feeding by night-flying pollinating moths. Variation in sex pheromone...

...Pablo E. Schilman; Flavio Roces SUMMARY We examined the quantitative relationship between the energetic costs and benefits of nectar collection by nectar-feeding ants, Camponotus rufipes . In the laboratory, individual workers were trained to visit an artificial feeder that provided a sucrose...