About the Authors

Ken Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Tan, Shihao Dong, James C. Nieh

kentan@xtbg.ac.cn (KT); jnieh@ucsd.edu (JCN)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Shihao Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Tan, Shihao Dong, James C. Nieh

Affiliation Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Xinyu Li

Affiliation Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Xiwen Liu

Affiliation Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Chao Wang

Affiliation Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Jianjun Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

James C. Nieh

Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Tan, Shihao Dong, James C. Nieh

kentan@xtbg.ac.cn (KT); jnieh@ucsd.edu (JCN)

Affiliation Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCN KT. Performed the experiments: SD XLi KT XLiu CW JL JCN. Analyzed the data: JCN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCN KT. Wrote the paper: JCN KT.