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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0729.00017.] From the authors' introduction: It is the aim of this paper to examine the impact of optimal pollinator foraging on flower competition for effective transfer of pollen to other members of the same species. A mathematical model will be presented which is sufficiently simple to be analytically tractable. Of course, a simple abstract model cannot capture all the intricacies of pollinator-plant interactions reported in the literature. One cannot hope to achieve more than a logically stringent presentation of a possible explanation for the phenomenon of resources offered to pollinators by flowers. Analytical tractability requires extreme simplifications in the description of reality. Much more complex models and computer simulations rather than analytical techniques would be needed for applications to specific ecological systems.