New research has shown that some Australian native flowers have shifted away from using insects as pollinators and evolved their flower colour to the red hues favoured by birds.
Flowers Pick Birds Over Insects
http://pda.sciencealert.com.au/news/20132602-24095.html
Shades of red: bird pollinated flowers target the specific colour discrimination abilities of avian vision
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12135/abstract
Stephen Ambrose
Ryde NSW
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