FE: Ken Thompson & Jurene Kemp: Daisies that close at night use colour to hide from herbivores
"It seems that both groups are picking the flower…
March 2, 202020m 55s
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"It seems that both groups are picking the flowers when they're feeding - they're walking about and you can see them pick flower after flower after flower after flower."
In this podcast, Jurene Kemp talks about her paper, Cryptic petal coloration decreases floral apparency and herbivory in nocturnally closing daisies - recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology's Haldane Prize.
(Find this and the other shortlisted papers at j.mp/2019HaldaneShortlist).