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From the BBC, RT 2:59.
Nature has evolved in the most curious of ways. This incredible plant dupes wasps into thinking they're mating, while loading them with pollen.
Nature has evolved in the most curious of ways. This incredible plant dupes wasps into thinking they're mating, while loading them with pollen.
Aug 30, 2009 5:04 AM
Re: Attenborough: Wild Orchid Wasp Mimic
I once debated a young earth creationist on this very subject re: God making orchid mimicry possible. My head hurt by the time I finished researching the phenomenon (I'd never heard of it before.)
I should have known Attenborough would have tackled the subject. Might have made the whole thing easier.
I should have known Attenborough would have tackled the subject. Might have made the whole thing easier.
By: Shiggety
Re: Attenborough: Wild Orchid Wasp Mimic
in situations like this, it always amazes me to think that the orchid never *conciously* chose to look like a wasp, and it only came to be that way through a series of small changes over time- yet if you look at it today it seems as though the flower planned it all along.
By: hypersapien
Re: Attenborough: Wild Orchid Wasp Mimic
"Dude, I think I caught something from that orchid."
By: Raikou
Re: Attenborough: Wild Orchid Wasp Mimic
I thought that there was something off with that woman I had sex with last night.
Also explains the yellow horns on my ass.
Also explains the yellow horns on my ass.
By: Deh_Dude
