How does an orchid ophrys ensures its po...

How does an orchid ophrys ensures its pollination by bees?

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The plant, Ophrys an orchid, the flower looks like a female insect to attract the male insect to get pollinated by the male insect and it is otherwise called ‘floral mimicry’.

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