Tobacco Hawkmoth Drinking Nectar (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Tobacco Hawkmoth Drinking Nectar

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During the night, a tobacco hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) uses its proboscis to suck nectar from a flower of the wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata. Sensory neurons located on the tip of the proboscis respond to the floral volatile (E)-α-bergamotene.

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Danny Kessler, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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