Orchid Kalani - flying duck ( 13 photos )

The Green continent there is an unusual kind of orchid flowers with about two centimeters, which are very similar in shape a flying duck. Nature does nothing in vain, and here, too, there is an explanation.

This is for the person this kind of orchid to the form of a flying duck. For insects, which are called sawflies, the upper part of the flower resembles that of the female sawfly and attracts males. No, they do not eat orchid. It simply uses the male as transporters of pollen from one flower to another part, for pollination. Male for some time trapped flower and unequivocally covered with pollen. Attempts to drag away with a "flower clone" the female, the male himself without realizing it, the stigma of the orchid gives a necessary pollen.