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Klaus Lunau

@KlausLunau

I am a retired professor of zoology and former head of the Institute of Sensory Ecology at HHU Düsseldorf and actively working on flower colours as seen by bees

Joined April 2022
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Klaus Lunau Reposted

If you missed @Squash_Bee’s poster on cucurbit pollen collection and use by squash #bees (Xenoglossa pruinosa) at #EntSoc24 yesterday, feel free to check out the @JPE12328968 open access paper instead: doi.org/10.26786/1920-… @EntsocAmerica #Pollinators

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Ohne Natur können wir nicht existieren. Es braucht daher viel mehr politischen Willen, um den Artenverlust in Österreich zu stoppen. Besonders von der nächsten Regierung! #biodiversity

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Our paper on how biting helps during buzz pollination is free to read. Thanks to @UU_University for providing open access fees. Buzz-pollinating bees deliver thoracic vibrations to flowers through periodic biting: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…


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Sometimes there are these wow-moments during lecture prep! Look at how this bat's body is partitioned to carry pollen of so many coflowering species!! :-D doi.org/10.1186/s40693… #pollination #Chile #bats

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Anna Sophie Hawranek updating us on #Aquilegia #pollination syndromes and rigorous tests of the syndrome hypothesis at the Stefan Vogel Symposium @univienna

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Working on #pollination, #pollen transfer, #floral traits and how they link? Consider submitting to our special issue 'Pollen as the link between phenotype and fitness' at American Journal of Botany (@Botanical_ )!

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@KlausLunau opening the 5th International Symposium on flower evolution in memory of Stefan Vögel @univienna

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This is my last tweet as the evidence has reached threshold, and now beyond, that the platform is owned by an individual with strong political ties, and I believe it is important to be neutral in all disseminations of information.


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A very inspiring #SCAPE2024 keynote lecture by @JeffOllerton ! Plant-pollinator interactions are foundational to the Sustainable Development Goals, not only a from a food production perspective, but also in relation to societal equity, carbon sequestration, and so much more.

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Regarding the recent application by @NFUtweets to allow 'emergency' use of neonics on sugar beet, this image explains the problem: most of the pesticide goes into soils, leaches into waterways, & is taken up by wildflowers & hedgerows. Only 5% in crop. nature.com/articles/natur…

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Reminds me of a conversation with my then head of department, early in my career: Me: "The advantage of my research is that it's relatively cheap." Him: "Then we'll have to think of ways of making it more expensive". robinheinen.com/2024/10/06/the… #AcademicChatter #SciencevManagement


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Excited to share this hot-off-the-press work in New Phytologist! With @azuluagat & @JMHbiologistico, we used experiments to address the adaptive significance of a trait common among bat-pollinated flowers... Full article here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XCYVRIKX… (1/5)

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Klaus Lunau Reposted

🚨We are welcoming applicants for an ERC-funded PhD project with the @imprs_qbee graduate program @UniKonstanz 🦋👀💡Are you (or someone you know) interested in visual neuroethology, dynamic light environments, and insects? Apply here: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/70685/Dynamic-…


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I have observed this bee-fly, I think Systoechus sp., flying around the nests of Colletes hederae (Ivy bee). Can anyone identify the species or provide some information about its biology?

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The recent cover of plant biology highlights the review of me and Adrian Dyer: The modelling of flower colour: spectral purity or colour contrast as biologically relevant descriptors of flower colour signals for bees depending upon the perceptual task. See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pl…

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Blue china orchid (Cyanicula gemmata) in bloom! What a spectacular violet blue! #orchids #waflora #biodiversity #australianativeplants #ozflora #nature #colour @aromatisi

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The purple pea plant is in bloom! Hardenbergia comptoniana, indicates the orchid season in SW Australia! A magnet species that attracts many #nativebees, benefiting the pollination donkey #orchids around! #ecologicalindicators #ozplants #ozflora #nativeplants #waflora @aromatisi

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