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. 2021 Feb 1;12:617761. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.617761

Table 1.

Proportion of total visits contributed to focal white and orange daisies by the main groups of insect pollinators.

White flowers Orange flowers
Corsomyza nigripes 87.3% 0%
Megapalpus capensis 1.2% 45.0%
Other flies 1.4% (4) 19.2% (8)
Hopliini beetles 3.4% (7) 25.1% (21)
Other beetles (mainly Meloidae) 6.6% (3) 10.3% (10)
Bees 0.1% (1) 0.3% (2)

Dominant fly pollinators are Megapalpus capensis for orange daisies and Corsomyza nigripes for white flowers. Data are the percentage of all insects observed on 9,334 white and 31,402 orange inflorescences during walked surveys. Numbers in brackets are the number of pollinator species/morphospecies in each group.