A scent released by a critically rare African orchid induces male longhorn beetles to ‘mate’ with the flower and thereby pollinate it. While sexual mimicry is a common tactic to drive insect ...
Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum (a dogbane species native to Japan described for the first time by Mochizuki and his collaborators only a year ago) ...
A small Japanese flower, Vincetoxicum nakaianum, uses a clever trick to reproduce. It smells like injured ants, attracting flies that normally feed on wounded insects. These flies then help pollinate ...
Recent research, published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, used the database to reveal that orchids show remarkable diversity of highly specialised pollination strategies that differ ...
Some people -- and animals -- will go to any lengths to attract members of the opposite sex, including the use of aliases and lies. As many as 10,000 species of dainty orchids in the floral world also ...
For the first time ever, it has been documented that a plant mimics the smell of injured ants to attract flies for pollination. This interesting evidence of floral mimicry has been observed in ...
Some people -- and animals -- will go to any lengths to attract members of the opposite sex, including the use of aliases and lies. As many as 10,000 species of dainty orchids in the floral world also ...
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