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For example, flowers that are pollinated by birds—bird flowers—produce nectar at much higher rates than those pollinated by bees (Stiles 1981).
The question is: how many birds and bees should forage at the red and blue patches so that their intake of nectar is maximised?
, through comparisons of pollen vs. nectar exploitation, bird exclusion experiments, etc.), the detection time of red flowers against a natural background, and the effect of flower colour and size on flight mode in the field.
The traditional explanation for this association is that, since red is inconspicuous to bees, it evolved to prevent bees from depleting the nectar of bird-pollinated flowers without effecting pollination.
, which have increased enormously in number because of apiculture) deplete the nectar and displace nectar-feeding birds (Valido et al.