Re: [aroid-l] A good year for Arum

From: Marc Gibernau gibernau at cict.fr> on 2003.04.30 at 07:54:35(10146) Dear Petra, I found your comments on Arum very interesting, because in the natural range of this genus, such carnage of pollinators are not documented. Whatever is the fly pollinator: Psychodidae, Sphaeroceridae, Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae and even if hundreds of them can be captured. So I wonder what kind of insects have "your" Arum captured? May be this disfunction is due to a non-adaptation of the local insect fauna to this "exotic" species. Sincerely yours, Marc +More ***************************************************** Marc Gibernau Laboratoire d'Evolution & Diversit? Biologique (FRE 2629) Universite Paul Sabatier 118 Route de Narbonne - Bat 4R3-B2 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4 France Tel: (33)-05-61-55-67-43 Fax: (33)-05-61-55-73-27 site web : http://www.edb.ups-tlse.fr/equipe3/equipe3.htm http://www.aroid.org/pollination/gibernau/index.html *****************************************************

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