Drone I may have had a fake girlfriend, why would Bee Lan engage in deceptive mimicry?

As soon as the drones came out of the soil, they smelled the charming smell of the bee orchid. It eagerly followed the scent, and sure enough, it saw that the "female bee" was waiting for it there, so it pounced desperately. Invisibly, drones help pollinate orchids.

If you think that the name Bee Orchid is just because it looks like a bee, then you are very wrong. The name was also given because bees are their primary pollinators. Bee orchids need to form a symbiotic relationship with a defined type of fungus in order to grow smoothly, which makes transplantation extremely difficult.

Their color and appearance mimic that of female bees, and they have a similar smell to attract male bees and speed up the pollination process.

Epiphytes, a type of plant that can often be seen, has a large inflorescence, and the number of flowers is as many as 40 or 50, so it is also called multi-flower orchid. The other type is slightly smaller in shape, with short inflorescences and about 21 flowers, which is also known as Taiwan orchid and small bee orchid.

Honey bee orchid is a perennial bulb orchid plant of the genus Orchid, its leaves are leathery and hypertrophied, and have luster, strong drought and cold resistance, colorful flowers, and high ornamental value, it is one of the more ideal potted flowers.

Bee orchids are small, and the flowers are not fragrant or slightly fragrant. Bee orchids are smaller, but their inflorescences are larger. The number of flowers on each inflorescence is large, the flower color is bright red, the growth is strong, and it can tolerate high and low temperatures.

The pseudobulb is ovoid shaped, the leaves are ribbon-shaped, the body is generally 25 to 40 cm long, the leaves are cm wide, the leaf tips are blunt and pointed, the leaves are thick, and the cuticles on the leaf surface are obvious. The clump leaves are 4-6, mostly soft and drooping, the pseudobulb is small, the peduncle is 15 30 cm long, easy to oblique or drooping, dense 12 40 flowers, the flowers are small, the sepals and petals are short and round, long ovate, and the lip lobes droop and roll back. The flower color is reddish-brown, the flowering period is from March to August, and the growth gradually stops after the flowering.

The wild orchid of the "bee orchid" has repeatedly made the male wild bee "deceived".

The flowers of the bee orchid are shaped like those of female bees, with a head, wings, and belly, not to mention many short hairs on the body, which can be chaotic. What's even more incredible is that it can even emit a smell of female bees preparing to mate to confuse the male bees. These are all good camouflage skills of the bee orchid.

Let's talk about the "fooled" male bees. It crawls out of the dormant soil at regular intervals in the warm spring every year; At this time, the female bees are still asleep. Female bees generally emerge two weeks after the male bee emerges.

The wonderful thing is that the bee orchid blooms two weeks before the female bee is unearthed, taking advantage of the female bee's loophole.

Because it may be for the sake of better reproduction of the next generation.

The aroma of the bee orchid is a complex hydrocarbon, and the precise formula of several aliphatic, juniper and terpene fragrances can realistically mimic the extrasexual hormones of female bees, so that the drones who "smell the fragrance and know the woman" are fascinated and swarm.

Just to pick a more suitable one to develop the next generation.

She actually wants to pollinate flowers.

Their main purpose is to mate, to prevent the next generation.

Because he is here to mate. Didn't think anything else.

To survive, attract insects to pollinate it.

Because it is necessary to choose good offspring.

The aroma of the bee orchid is a complex hydrocarbon, and the precise formula of several aliphatic, juniper and terpene fragrances can realistically mimic the extrasexual hormones of female bees, so that the drones who "smell the fragrance and know the woman" are fascinated and swarm. And the female bee imitated by the lip flaps, side lobes and zygosis columns, although it seems to humans to be a bit of a soul painting, is obviously enough to fool the male bee who is burning in his heart.

This is what makes them special and is a feature. It's for mating.

It's for mating. And it's a hormone he carries.

Because it can secrete a special smell.

Evolved, everything is about survival.

In order to continue to reproduce, the bee orchid did this.

Because it gives off a fragrance that can attract.

Because he wants to attract Xiongfeng to pollinate him.

Because of the hormones brought by your own body.