The meeting lasts five days and draws roughly 3,500 environmental scientists from around the world.ДЄ bee collects pollen on its body as it laps sugar-rich nectar from within the cupped interior of the flowerвЂ™s petals, and carries the flowerвЂ™s genetic heritage away with it to fertilize the next flower of the same species that it visits. The research group came up with an equation to predict tongue length from a combination of body size and taxonomic relationships.Д«artomeus will explain the equation and the usefulness of tongue length data for ecology at the 99 th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Sacramento, Cal., this August during the вЂњ Pollination IвЂќ oral session on Thursday afternoon, August 14. , but modulated by family adaptations-bee families typically have characteristic tongue shapes and proportions. Bee tongues are proportional to body size

The scarcity of reliable lingual datasets has held back research, so Ignasi Bartomeus of the EstaciГіn BiolГіgica de DoГ±ana (EBD-CSIC) in Sevilla, Spain, and his colleaguesДЄt Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.) looked for a more easily measured proxy, like body size. Data on tongue lengths can help ecologists understand and predict the behavior, resilience and invasiveness of bee populations.Д«ut bee tongues are hard to measure. Other bee species are generalists, flitting among flower species to drink nectar and collect pollen from a diverse variety of plants. Some bees and plants are very closely matched, with bee tongue sized to the flower depth.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, July 14, 2014Д¬ontact: Liza Lester (202) 833-8773 x 211 gro.ase bees and the flowers they pollinate, a compatible tongue length is essential to a successful relationship.

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