Is flowers nectar secreation influenced by bees/pollinators? Nectar secretion by flowers is influenced by many environmental factors e.g. water supply and air temperature **[1]**. My question is:

Is flowers nectar secreation influenced by bees/pollinators? Nectar secretion by flowers is influenced by many environmental factors e.g. water supply and air temperature [1]. My question is: _do bees (or any other pollinator) influence it too?_ I can imagine every bee's visit takes away a certain amount of nectar from the flower. Then following the flower nature, it should produce nectar again (if there are the right conditions, e.g. enough water). [1] <

In short, yes, it seems many flower species have mechanisms to replenish nectar after removal. For example, in Luo et al. 2014 Journal of Pollination Ecology, 9 of 11 species of plants they studied in the Colorado Rockies showed significant additional nectar production after some nectar was experimentally removed. Furthermore, the magnitude of this behavior was greater for flowers known to be heavily visited by bees:

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