Sentence examples for empty flower from inspiring English sources

In this way bees never experienced an empty flower with the exception of the last visited one.

As in the pre-training, flowers were refilled after the bee moved to a different one so that bees never experienced an empty flower with the exception of the last visited one.

Bringing a bottle of wine used to imply that your host's cellar was empty; flowers were a slur on the hostess's gardening skills.

"Initially, the bees' routes were long and complex, and they revisited empty flowers several times," Lihoreau says.

In this scenario moths tend to find either empty flowers or flowers that have the amount of nectar they had at the time of opening, assumed to be constant in the baseline model.

Ishii et al. (2008) found that pollinators avoided inflorescences with greater numbers of empty flowers.

> At the moderately warm temperatures in the climate chamber (∼26.5 29.5 °C) the plants had no empty flowers (producing no nectar) per plant, while at lower and higher temperatures the proportion of empty flowers increased.

All studied traits except the proportion of empty flowers per plant were modelled by following the description above.

Proportion of empty flowers per plant was used in models only in the case of B. acetabulosa, because T. divaricatum produced only few nectarless flowers.

Bees with uncovered antennae preferred rewarding flowers, whereas bees foraging with silicone-covered antennae and therefore impaired olfactory capabilities visited rewarding and empty flowers equally.

I suggest the latter since these floral traits allow pollinators to detect transient rewardlessness in flowers and therefore to avoid visiting empty flowers which would be costly in terms of time and energy.