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To the perfume compounds that orchid bees collect, male bees accidentally incorporate many additional by-product compounds that co-occur with the compounds they actively search for (Eltz et_al 2005a). Although orchid flowers provide only a fraction of the compounds collected by orchid bees in their perfumes (Whitten et_al 1993; RamÃrez et_al 2011), many orchid species exhibit a pronounced flowering peak in the dry season in Panama, with few species exhibiting year-round blooming patterns (Ackerman 1983). Differentiation between species is maintained despite intraspecific variation, seasonality in compound collection, and potentially shared collection . . .
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