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List of works by Klaus Lunau

A Comparative Study of Food Source Selection in Stingless Bees and Honeybees: Scent Marks, Location, or Color

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

A Matter of Contrast: Yellow Flower Colour Constrains Style Length in Crocus species

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

A bee’s eye view of remarkable floral colour patterns in the south-west Australian biodiversity hotspot revealed by false colour photography

scientific article published in 2021

An olfactory shift is associated with male perfume differentiation and species divergence in orchid bees

scientific article

Avoidance of achromatic colours by bees provides a private niche for hummingbirds.

scientific article published on May 2011

Bees' subtle colour preferences: how bees respond to small changes in pigment concentration

scientific article published on 31 May 2013

Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) and honeybees (Apis mellifera) prefer similar colours of higher spectral purity over trained colours

scientific article

Bumblebees are able to perceive amino acids via chemotactile antennal stimulation

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Bumblebees require visual pollen stimuli to initiate and multimodal stimuli to complete a full behavioral sequence in close-range flower orientation

scientific article published on February 2017

Changes in floral nectar are unlikely adaptive responses to pollinator flight sound

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Colour is more than hue: preferences for compiled colour traits in the stingless bees Melipona mondury and M. quadrifasciata

scientific article published in August 2016

Comparative bioacoustical studies on flight and buzzing of neotropical bees

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Conical flower cells reduce surface gloss and improve colour signal integrity for free-flying bumblebees

scientific article published on 09 July 2021

Cuticular hydrocarbons distinguish cryptic sibling species in Euglossa orchid bees

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Divergent rules for pollen and nectar foraging bumblebees--a laboratory study with artificial flowers offering diluted nectar substitute and pollen surrogate

scientific article

Dynamic monitoring of vital functions and tissue re-organization in Saturnia pavonia (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae) during final metamorphosis by non-invasive MRI

scientific article published on 20 January 2022

Enfleurage, lipid recycling and the origin of perfume collection in orchid bees

scientific article (publication date: 22 November 2007)

Evolutionary aspects of perfume collection in male euglossine bees (Hymenoptera) and of nest deception in bee-pollinated flowers

scholarly article by Klaus Lunau published June 1992 in Chemoecology

False-colour photography: a novel digital approach to visualize the bee view of flowers

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Flower Colour: How Bumblebees Handle Colours with Perceptually Changing Hues

scientific article published in March 2016

Functional significance of the optical properties of flowers for visual signalling

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Gloss, colour and grip: multifunctional epidermal cell shapes in bee- and bird-pollinated flowers

scientific article

High innate preference for black substrate in the chive gnat, Bradysia odoriphaga (Diptera: Sciaridae)

High innate preference of black substrate in the chive gnat, Bradysia odoriphaga (Diptera: Sciaridae)

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

How flower colour signals allure bees and hummingbirds: a community-level test of the bee avoidance hypothesis

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Innate colour preferences of the Australian native stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria Sm.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Juggling with volatiles: exposure of perfumes by displaying male orchid bees.

scientific article published on 20 April 2005

Limitations of learning in the proboscis reflex of the flower visiting syrphid fly Eristalis tenax

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Nectar mimicry: a new phenomenon

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Plant secretions prevent wasp parasitism in nests of wool-carder bees, with implications for the diversification of nesting materials in Megachilidae

article

Pollen and stamen mimicry: the alpine flora as a case study

article

Pollen grain morphology is not exclusively responsible for pollen collectability in bumble bees

Raising the sugar content--orchid bees overcome the constraints of suction feeding through manipulation of nectar and pollen provisions

scientific article

Salience of multimodal flower cues manipulates initial responses and facilitates learning performance of bumblebees

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

Salvage of floral resources through re-absorption before flower abscission

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

Selective attraction in bird-pollinated flowers. A commentary on: 'Red flowers differ in shades between pollination systems and across continents'

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Species-specific antennal responses to tibial fragrances by male orchid bees.

scientific article published in January 2006

Spectral purity, intensity and dominant wavelength: Disparate colour preferences of two Brazilian stingless bee species

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Testing the influence of gravity on flower symmetry in five Saxifraga species

scientific article published on 30 March 2017

The yellow specialist: dronefly Eristalis tenax prefers different yellow colours for landing and proboscis extension

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

To be on the safe site - Ungroomed spots on the bee's body and their importance for pollination

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Trees as huge flowers and flowers as oversized floral guides: the role of floral color change and retention of old flowers in Tibouchina pulchra

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Visual detection of diminutive floral guides in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris and in the honeybee Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 8 October 2009

Visual ecology of flies with particular reference to colour vision and colour preferences

scientific article published on 25 March 2014

Visual targeting of components of floral colour patterns in flower-naïve bumblebees (Bombus terrestris; Apidae).

scientific article published on 28 March 2006

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