Pollinator trapping in selfing carnivorous plants, Drosera makinoi and D. toyoakensis (Droseraceae)

Tagawa, Kazuki; Watanabe, Mikio; Yahara, Tetsukazu

doi:10.1007/s11284-018-1572-6

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Published: 12 February 2018

Pollinator trapping in selfing carnivorous plants, Drosera makinoi and D. toyoakensis (Droseraceae)

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Carnivorous plants use insects not only as prey, but also as pollinators. Whereas outcrossing carnivorous plants are known to avoid trapping pollinators, selfing carnivorous plants may capture the pollinators as prey. Here, we provide evidence that two selfing carnivorous plant species with short flower-trap separation, Drosera makinoi (white-colored flowers) and D. toyoakensis (pink-colored flowers), caught some major pollinator species belonging to Diptera and Hymenoptera: four out of five species in D. makinoi and one out of six species in D. toyoakensis. We also tested the function of flowers to attract pollinator or prey insects by experimentally removing Drosera flowers. Flower removal did not significantly affect the number of trapped insects. On the other hand, the removal of flowers of co-flowering neighbor plants, Eriocaulon decemflorum for D. makinoi and Lysimachia fortunei for D. toyoakensis, significantly decreased the number of trapped insects. This finding suggests an exploitative relationship between Drosera spp. and co-flowering species.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Ms. Sora Morimoto in Aichi University of Education and Mr. Masumi Owada for supporting the field survey. Suggestions and comments given by members of the ecological science laboratory in Kyushu University and the biology laboratory in Aichi University of Education were greatly helpful in analyzing data and writing this article. We also thank Dr. Firouzeh Javadi for correcting the English in this article. We are grateful to the Board of Education in Toyoake city for allowing us to have a survey in the protected area.

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Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Kazuki Tagawa
Department of Biology, Aichi University of Education, Aichi, Japan
Mikio Watanabe
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Tetsukazu Yahara

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Tagawa, K., Watanabe, M. & Yahara, T. Pollinator trapping in selfing carnivorous plants, Drosera makinoi and D. toyoakensis (Droseraceae). Ecol Res 33, 487–494 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-018-1572-6

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Received: 19 October 2017
Accepted: 19 January 2018
Published: 12 February 2018
Issue Date: March 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-018-1572-6

Keywords

Carnivorous plants
Droseraceae
Pollinator
Self-pollination
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