How does the floral pattern of Mediterranean orchid guarantee cross pollination?
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Orchids petals look like a female vasp from which male vasp attracted towards it to copulate with it in the misunderstanding that it is female vasp and the pollen grain which is stick on them is fall on the orchids in this way pollination takes place
this is u r ans :-
Orchids petals look like a female vasp from which male vasp attracted towards it to copulate with it in the misunderstanding that it is female vasp and the pollen grain which is stick on them is fall on the orchids in this way pollination takes place
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To secure its pollination by bees the Mediterranean orchid Ophrys applies ‘reproductive trick’. An individual petal of its perennial bears an incredible similarity to the female of the bee in measurement, coloring and senses. Accordingly, the male bee is drawn to what it recognizes as a female, ‘pseudo-copulation’ with the perennial, and throughout that method is sprinkled with pollen from the perennial. The male's bee Meanwhile this alike bee ‘pseudo-copulation’ with a different flower, it transports pollen to it and thus, fertilizes the flower.
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