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Oh, sometimes its simply the scent of the orchid. Sometimes the orchid imitates the phermones emitted by a female wasp to attract the males.
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06-13-2007, 12:19 PM
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A few months ago one of the nature related TV channel(National Geographic or Discovery) featured about this deception and some footage of a bee performing an amourous act on the lip of an orchis and the flower rewarding the bee wth pair of pollinia attached to the back of the vector on a pedicil! |
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This is awesome! I want to see pics of a bee mating with the orchid!!
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08-07-2007, 10:44 PM
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Oops! Didn't realize there was a second page!
This video is awesome!! Thanks for posting!
(poor wasp  )
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08-24-2007, 03:32 PM
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The story of Ophrys sphegodes is correct! And even more there are a lot of Ophrys species who uses 'pseudocopulation' as pollination technique. But most of them can't relay on this technique, and than the flower has an other technique ! Self pollination! It's manages to get themselves pollinated via the pollen with are positioned on two thin sticks, the sticks dries in the middle and the pollen swing down to the stigma and so pollinates themselves.
But I must amid the first story is much cooler!
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Now imagine if there were orchids that looked like women? 
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The story of Ophrys sphegodes is correct! And even more there are a lot of Ophrys species who uses 'pseudocopulation' as pollination technique. But most of them can't relay on this technique, and than the flower has an other technique ! Self pollination! It's manages to get themselves pollinated via the pollen with are positioned on two thin sticks, the sticks dries in the middle and the pollen swing down to the stigma and so pollinates themselves.
But I must amid the first story is much cooler!
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I have noticed similar self polination in spathaglottis genus save the newly introduced hybrids and also  in Eulophia genus. There are many tiny orchids which we call botanicals where such action is the only way to procreate as the nature is yet to find a matching micro-sized vector. |
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Now imagine if there were orchids that looked like women?
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 They don't have too. They already have us duped into pollinating them and raising thier babies.
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Wow never knew this
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