Re: [aroid-l] A good year for Arum


Dear Petra,

I found your comments on Arum very interesting, because in the natural range of this genus, such carnage of pollinators are not documented. Whatever is the fly pollinator: Psychodidae, Sphaeroceridae, Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae and even if hundreds of them can be captured.
So I wonder what kind of insects have "your" Arum captured?
May be this disfunction is due to a non-adaptation of the local insect fauna to this "exotic" species.

Sincerely yours,

Marc



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