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Flower mimics wasp

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the end of its labellum and when a
pollinator alights, it gets a bop on
the backside sending it head long
into the pollen-bearing bodics of
the flower. It is no wonder the
cammon naine is hammer orchid.

The Rube Goldberg claborations
of these mechanisms is matched to
the fullest by the sophisticated
deception-and chemical. attraction
devices that are ‘also employed.
Many orchids offer their
pollinators artificial bribes often so
alluring as.to be, preferred to the
real thing.

Such a situation exists with a

southeast Asian genus known as
Crytostylis which lures male wasps

with a flash of color: resembling -

the abdomen of the female wasp
and an odor that is so potent a
duplication of the female scent
that the male i* induced to mate
the flower in preference to the fe-
male wasp.

In other cases the orchid even
times its blooming to beat out
rivals. The genus Ophrys achieves
this by producing exact floral rep-
licas of the specific female bee sev-
eral weeks before the actual hatch
of the bee thus enjoying complete
freedom from competition.

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