Euonymus laxiflorus in Taiwan. (VIDEO)

University of Tokyo

Caption

The team recorded 1,853 flower-visiting insects over a period of 250 hours during the several years of study. Here a swarm of fungus gnats visits the red flowers of the Euonymus laxiflorus. Fungus gnats are known to pollinate 12 plant families containing hundreds of species.

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2023 K. Mochizuki

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