Pollen digestion in flower-feeding Scarabaeidae : protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini)
Bibliography: leaves 95-104. === Beetles pollinate over 80% of all flowering plants and feed on the two most common floral rewards, nectar and pollen. Pollen is nutritionally very valuable, being a rich protein and carbohydrate source. However, the hard and highly resistant outer wall (exine) of the...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Cape Town
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6106 |