Gender-biased nectar targets different behavioural traits of flower visitors

This dataset contains data used in the analyses performed in the article entitled "Gender-biased nectar targets different behavioural traits of flower visitors". The Excel file contains five sheets. 1_‘Behavioural observations’ contains taxa, sex, number of visited flowers, duration of visits and reward sought of each insect visiting <em>Echium vulgare </em>flowers during behavioural observations. 2_‘Insect checklist’ contains the list of all taxa recorded visiting the flowers. 3_‘Patches’ contains the description of the fixed plant patches where flower visitor observations were performed. 4_‘Nectar quality’ contains volume and concentration of sugars and amino acids measured in several nectar sample of <em>Echium vulgare</em>, belonging to three different flower stages. 5_‘Nectar aminoacid diversity’ contains the concentration of specific amino acids found in nectar samples of two flower stages.