These datasets and R code are associated with the article “Bumblebee responses to variation in pollinator-attracting traits of Vicia faba flowers”, published in Ecology and Evolution with Article ID: ECE310617 Doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10617

Further descriptions of the datasets are given in relevant excel and .txt files, and detailed methods can be found in the associated research paper.

Dataset: Bailesetal-Measurements-dataset.xlsx contains all datasets associated with Bailesetal_Flower_traits_Rcode_final_models.Rmd (which contains the R code for statistics conducted on the data).

The data is of morphological/phenotypic measurements of Vicia faba (field bean) flowers across up to 30 inbred lines. Measurements included in this dataset are:

Wing petal length

Wing petal Width

Wing petal shape (length:width ratio)

Corolla tube length

Standard Height

Wing area

Petal spot area

Bee experiments datasets: .csv files (listed below) are provided containing the data associated with Bailesetal_BeeStats_R.Rmd (which contains the R code for statistics conducted on the data). The data is of bee flower choices across 6 different experiments that test preferences between different types of bean flowers. Further description of the csv files are found in the file “Bee_data_description.txt”: Datasets:

Experiment 1) Can bees perceive differences in the scent of flowers from NV641 and NV676? Vol_diff_ch.csv Vol_diff_R.csv

Experiment 2) Do bees prefer the scent of flowers from NV641 or NV676? TT_first.csv TT_pref.csv

Experiment 3) Do bees prefer flowers with wing petal spots? spot_pref.csv spot_first.csv

Experiment 4) Can bees perceive the difference between large and small spotted petal models? Size_diff_data.csv Size_diff_R.csv

Experiment 5) Do bees prefer large or small wing petal spots? size_first.csv Size_pref.csv

Experiment 6) Do bees prefer flowers with shorter corolla tubes? TubeLength_feeding.csv TubeLength_landings.csv

Dataset: Bailesetal_Vfaba_VOC_raw_data.xlsx. This dataset contains data on the volatiles collected from flowers of the lines NV676 and NV641 of V. faba. There are no statistics (R file) associated with this data.

Dataset: Bailesetal_Vfaba_colour_raw data.xlsx. This dataset contains data on the colour (%reflectance at different wavelengths) and associated co-ordinated in bee colour space collected from flowers of 30 lines of V. faba at three different locations – the standard petal, wing petal tip and wing petal spot. There are no statistics (R file) associated with this data.