Orchid flower, Ophrys co-evolves to maintain a resemblance of its petal to female bees. Explain how and why does it do so?
They employ ‘Sexual deceit’. one petal bears an uncanny resemblance to the female of the bee. The male bee is attracted to what it perceives as a female ‘pseudocopulation,’ during which pollen dusted on the male bee is a body. A male bee transfers pollen to another flower when the same bee pseudocopulation with another flower. Ophrys does this in order not to make pollination success reduce unless it co-evolves with the female bee.
