Orchids are nature's pollinator tricksters. They have ingenious methods, including pheremones that make some pollinators try to bang the flowers. Others entice them with fake nectar and drop them into the flower where they have to crawl out and get covered in pollen, ie plant jizz, on their way out, kinky I know.
They even found some that did give a bit of nectar, laced with hyrdrocodone for the bees. I wonder if I can find the article, the last one was from a news story though. But I don't even remember all the ways.
Enshitified search won't give it to me, from Harper's Magazine a decade or so back.
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Yeah, I'm a bee
This is some bee porn here.
Probably an orchid, tricking them into pollinating it without giving it nectar.
the hive is already in the mouth?
It looks like it.
Orchids are nature's pollinator tricksters. They have ingenious methods, including pheremones that make some pollinators try to bang the flowers. Others entice them with fake nectar and drop them into the flower where they have to crawl out and get covered in pollen, ie plant jizz, on their way out, kinky I know.
They even found some that did give a bit of nectar, laced with hyrdrocodone for the bees. I wonder if I can find the article, the last one was from a news story though. But I don't even remember all the ways.
Enshitified search won't give it to me, from Harper's Magazine a decade or so back.
Don't even think it!
Reminds me of the Spongebob intro painting guy, with the superimposed mouth.