Highlights•Floral visitors can employ multiple behavioral tactics to forage for nectar,
including nectar robbing and visiting flowers legitimately.•Individuals that have the …

Mosquitoes are generally considered nectar thieves that do not contribute to the pollination
of the flowers they visit. Here we tested the hypothesis that the common house mosquito …

Invasive pollinators can disrupt native pollination mutualisms. We investigated the impact of
the invasion of the European bumble bee Bombus terrestris in NW Patagonia, Argentina, on …

Flower–animal interactions encompass a continuum of mutualistic to antagonistic behaviors.
Although the importance of pollinators in interaction networks has been widely reported, the …

Background and Aims It has been suggested that the dynamics of nectar replenishment
could differ for flowers after being nectar robbed or visited legitimately, but further …

Zoophilous flowering plants have features to attract their pollinators, which may also be used
by exploiters like nectar robbers. Nectar robbers access nectar by probing flower corollas …

Mutualisms are only rarely one‐to‐one interactions: each species generally interacts with
multiple mutualists. Exploitation is ubiquitous in mutualisms, and we would therefore expect …

Nectar robbing can affect plant reproductive success directly by influencing female and male
fitness, and indirectly by affecting pollinator behavior. Flowers have morphological and …

Pollinator‐mediated selection toward larger and abundant flowers is common in naturally
pollen‐limited populations. However, floral antagonists may counteract this effect …

Plants and their interaction partners offer unparalleled views of evolutionary ecology. Nectar
larceny, entailing nectar extraction without pollinating, is thought to be an example of a …