{"id":16066,"date":"2019-12-31T12:26:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=16066"},"modified":"2019-12-31T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T17:26:24","slug":"photo-spotlight-pollinator-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2019\/12\/31\/photo-spotlight-pollinator-gecko\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo spotlight: pollinator gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This lizard is beauty, this lizard is grace\u2014even if this lizard has a bit of pollen on its face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0002-m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16106 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0002-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2083\" height=\"1433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0002-m.jpg 2083w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0002-m-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0002-m-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0002-m-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0002-m-1536x1057.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0002-m-2048x1409.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2083px) 100vw, 2083px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans might hold a little stigma toward those who walk around with food on their nose, but for these ornate day geckos (<em>Phelsuma ornata<\/em>), the only \u201cstigma\u201d they\u2019re concerned with is the pollen-receptor kind in plants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0001-m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16104 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0001-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2083\" height=\"1133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0001-m.jpg 2083w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0001-m-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0001-m-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0001-m-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0001-m-1536x835.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0001-m-2048x1114.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2083px) 100vw, 2083px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0003-m-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16105 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0003-m-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0003-m-scaled-1.jpg 1893w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0003-m-scaled-1-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0003-m-scaled-1-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0003-m-scaled-1-768x1039.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0003-m-scaled-1-1136x1536.jpg 1136w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0003-m-scaled-1-1514x2048.jpg 1514w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2019\/12\/fee2137-fig-0003-m-scaled-1-300x406.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a>In many island systems, lizards serve as important and understudied pollinators. Hopping from plant to plant, they enthusiastically feed on nectar, transporting pollen in the process as it rubs off on their nose and gets carried to the next destination. It\u2019s not unusual to see the ornate, multicolored skin of this lizard sprinkled with delicate yellow pollen grains.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/fee.2137\">Frontiers EcoPics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Patrick D Moldowan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lizard is beauty, this lizard is grace\u2014even if this lizard has a bit of pollen on its face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}