Orchids & bees
While we tend to think of pollination as a win for bees and plants alike, there is no small amount of trickery at work. Many orchids deceive their bee visitors, luring them in with fragrant, colourful flowers that contain no nectar or usable pollen whatsoever. The most famous example may be the bee orchids, the blossoms of which take on the shape, texture, and odour of particular female bees. Males then unwittingly transfer pollen as they move from plant to plant, mounting the flowers in a pollination scenario defined by a telling botanical term – pseudocopulation.