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mark smyth
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from yesterdays Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/09/orchid-sex-botany-ziegler-pollan
and a new book
Deceptive Beauties: The World of Wild Orchids
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deceptive-Beauties-World-Wild-Orchids/dp/0226982971/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318265363&sr=8-1
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Odd photo. Almost as if someone has deliberately stuck the pollinia onto the bee's bum. They should be on its head, unless, of course, it has reversed into the flower?
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