The invasive ‘mothcatcher’ (Araujia sericifera Brot.; Asclepiadoideae) co-opts native honeybees as its primary pollinator in South Africa

Araujia sericifera is a South American milkweed which is an invasive/exotic species in South Africa. This species relies on pollinators for sexual reproduction and we show it has co-opted native South African honeybees as primary pollinators in its adopted country. Moths also visit the flowers of this species, but contribute little to its relatively high pollination success.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  AoB Plants

• Publication date

  2010-12-09

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/aobpla/plq021PMID 22476079PMCID 3035059
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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