This work was conducted at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social and made possible via the summer undergrad research programs www.kbs.msu.edu/education/undergraduate-program/!

We used slow-motion videos of wild radish pollinators to investigate the mystery of why mustard family flowers consistently have four long plus two short stamens. We propose the new hypothesis that pollination efficiency increases when pollinators move from one stamen type to another during a visit.