Opportunistic Use of Banana Flower Bracts by<i>Glossophaga soricina</i>

Murphy, Meghan; Clare, Elizabeth L.; Rydell, Jens; Yovel, Yossi; Bar-On, Yinon M.; Oelbaum, Phillip J.; Fenton, M. Brock

doi:10.3161/15081109acc2016.18.1.011

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“…Flowers are spread on two rows, each flower containing a nectar capsule. As the female flowers grow in the fruit, the inflorescence extends and produces bundle of flowers [19]. A third type of flower called hermaphrodite, or neutral, can be found on the stem of the female flowers and the male buds.…”

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Banana Flower Nectar - Mediated Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles

Stirbescu¹,

Ion²,

Teodorescu³

et al. 2020

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Worldwide, the banana is the most famous fruit on the market. All parts of the plant have been used over the years in medicine and the curative properties of the banana are well known. No reports about the study of the nectar of banana flowers could be find, except those on extracts from different parts of the plant, this being the reason of starting synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) from the banana flower's nectar. Because conventional methods for producing NPs are expensive, toxic and nonorganic in this study it was used natural sources for NPs synthesis (green synthesis). The AgNPs were characterized by UV-Vis spectrophotometry, optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopies.

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Section: Fig 1 Banana Flower In the Three Stages Of Growthmentioning

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Banana Flower Nectar - Mediated Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles

Stirbescu¹,

Ion²,

Teodorescu³

et al. 2020

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“…Diverse plants have morphological and physical features that are associated with the feeding behavior of bats that visit and pollinate their flowers (Baker, 1961;Tschapka & Dressler, 2002). The interaction between bats and these plants (Baker, 1961) is an outcome of long evolutional process of plants to attract nocturnal visitors (Fleming et al, 2009) and has been observed for species of the genus Musa (Musaceae) (Itino et al, 1991;Elangovan et al, 2000;Liu et al, 2002;Murphy et al, 2016). This genus has many features in its inflorescences, such as large size, visibility, floral aroma, and abundant nectar, which make it an important food resource for both diurnal and nocturnal animals (Nur,1976;Faegri & van der Pijl, 1979;Itino et al, 1991;Endress, 1995;Elangovan et al, 2000;Liu et al, 2002).…”

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“…Banana plants with erect inflorescences are visited by birds, whereas those with pendant inflorescences are visited by bats (Liu et al, 2002). Furthermore, nectarivorous bats use open bracts as acoustic beacons to find the exact location of nectar through the echolocation (Murphy et al, 2016).…”

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Feeding behavior and activity period of three Neotropical bat species (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) on Musa paradisiaca inflorescences (Zingiberales: Musaceae)

Pedrozo

Gomes

Uieda

2018

Iheringia, Sér. Zool.

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We studied the feeding behavior and the activity period of three phyllostomid bat species on Musa paradisiaca inflorescences in an orchard located in southeastern Brazil. Glossophaga soricina (Pallas, 1766), Anoura caudifer (É. Geoffroy, 1818), and Phyllostomus discolor (Wagner, 1843) were frequently observed, videotaped, and mist-netted visiting banana inflorescences. Three approaching strategies on banana inflorescences were performed by bats: hovering (glossophagine species), upside landing (G. soricina), and downside landing (P. discolor). A new feeding behavior that consisted in hovering and licking the nectar that dripped from the distal part of a closed bract was observed for glossophagines. Visits occurred throughout the night (from 18:00 h to 05:00 h). However, activity pattern of nectarivorous bat species was significantly different from the omnivorous bat species, with the formers presenting visiting peaks at 21:00 hs and 23:30 hs, and the second at 23:45 hs and 02:30 hs. Dietary specialization, body size, and foraging behavior are important features that are linked to kind of approaching strategies to flowers and activity period of bats. Although bat visits on M. paradisiaca inflorescences are not reproductively important to banana plant, its nectar is a frequent and abundant food source for bats from the family Phyllostomidae, at least in Southeastern Brazil.

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“…In other fields of ecology, studies have utilised action video cameras to document rare (Kadaba, 2014) and elusive animal species (Murphy et al, 2016), and the ongoing development of action video cameras in conjunction with portable, user-friendly drones provides opportunities for 'near real-time mapping of local land cover, monitoring of illegal forest activities, and surveying of large animal species' (Koh & Wich, 2012). In other fields of ecology, studies have utilised action video cameras to document rare (Kadaba, 2014) and elusive animal species (Murphy et al, 2016), and the ongoing development of action video cameras in conjunction with portable, user-friendly drones provides opportunities for 'near real-time mapping of local land cover, monitoring of illegal forest activities, and surveying of large animal species' (Koh & Wich, 2012).…”

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“…The three-dimensional nature of flowers and plants together with the often rapid movement of floral visitors can reduce the accuracy of estimates of pollinator activity both by direct observation and DVR methods. In other fields of ecology, studies have utilised action video cameras to document rare (Kadaba, 2014) and elusive animal species (Murphy et al, 2016), and the ongoing development of action video cameras in conjunction with portable, user-friendly drones provides opportunities for 'near real-time mapping of local land cover, monitoring of illegal forest activities, and surveying of large animal species' (Koh & Wich, 2012).…”

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The use of digital video recorders in pollination biology

Gilpin

Denham

Ayre

2017

Ecological Entomology

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1. Digital video recording (DVR) devices, such as the GoPro Hero, have the potential to greatly benefit pollination ecology, but the advantages of digitally recording pollinator activity over direct human observation have not been formally assessed.2. Two plant taxa, Lavandula angustifolia and Canna 'sp.', with differing floral morphology, were used to compare the value of DVR and direct observations in estimating honeybee (Apis mellifera) visitation, flower density and number of flowers visited per foraging bout.3. The two methods yielded identical results when observing the structurally simple L. angustifolia at both high (10.54 ± 0.52 per plant) and low honeybee density (2.24 ± 0.20 per plant). However, DVR underestimated the number of flowers scored in the field of view (28.7 ± 1.8 direct vs. 22.7 ± 0.9 DVR), the number of honeybees observed (5.3 ± 0.8 direct vs. 3.7 ± 0.7 DVR) and the number of flowers visited during foraging bouts (8.3 ± 1.2 direct vs. 5.5 ± 1.0 DVR) on the more complex Canna 'sp.' 4. It is concluded that portable weatherproof DVR devices such as the GoPro Hero are valuable tools for pollination biologists, allowing a single researcher to make simultaneous observations of multiple plants in one or more sites, whilst also allowing the footage to be reviewed. However, DVR devices are limited by their depth and field of view when target plants are large or structurally complex.

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Opportunistic Use of Banana Flower Bracts byGlossophaga soricina

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Banana Flower Nectar - Mediated Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles

Banana Flower Nectar - Mediated Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles

Feeding behavior and activity period of three Neotropical bat species (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) on Musa paradisiaca inflorescences (Zingiberales: Musaceae)

The use of digital video recorders in pollination biology

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