The flower’s velvety lip looks like a female bee. So this cleaver orchid fools a male Bee to fly in to try to mate with it, in doing so it will pollinate the flower. Sadly, the right bee species don’t live here, so this orchid is self-pollinated in the UK.
The orchid “tricks” the male bee?! It is true what they say — “Nature is a mad scientist!”
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Nature is smarter than humans are sometimes!
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