Deceptive flowers, duping insects: How parachute flowers lure their pollinators into a trap
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 04:31
in Biology & Nature
An unusually cunning imitation strategy has recently been discovered in the plant kingdom. A twiner native to southern Africa, the parachute flower has a particularly cunning strategy for attracting flies for pollination. Its way of ensuring pollination is a complicated ploy involving fraud and imprisonment.