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Ep. 383 - Aroid Pollination is Wild!

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Orchid Bees - What's Going on With Them?

The male orchid bees are the only bees so far known that collect the scent of the flower. So they go to the enturium flower and collect with the fore legs the scent, and then store the scent in a special basket on the hind leg. They put it on their miat legs, a small hair, and with their wings, they fan the the smell into the forest. The more scents they collect from different flowers, the better the perfume becomes. There are known more than 900 orchid species exclusively polenaded by orchid bee males only collessing sent. And i want to find out if, because they don't only visit anturiums t they visit

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