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What is a brown bee orchid?

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its a plant that makes confuse bees by unsuccessfully mating with it and carrying their pollen. its a plant that makes confuse bees by unsuccessfully mating with it and carrying their pollen.

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The brown bee orchid has short roots so it sucks up water close to the surface and it also survives on photosynthesis

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Is a Bee Orchid a bee or plant?

A species of orchid from Israel that looks and smells like a female bee tricks male long-horned bees into pollinating them.


How does the adaptation of looking like a bee help the bee orchid pollinate it's flowers?

Adaptation helps the orchid attract insects


What is a bee orchid?

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What is brown Bee?

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What do the bee orchid and the carrion flower both do?

They both take advantage of insects for pollination. The Bee Orchid tricks male bees to mate with it, and in the process they pick up pollen. The Carrion Orchid attracts insects using a fragrance and color/texture of rotting meat.


When was Brown-banded carder bee created?

Brown-banded carder bee was created in 1806.


Are bees pollinating flowers mutualism?

usually just the fact that it's a flower and bees like flowers,but there is an orchid bee which is a bee that resembles a orchid and the males are very attracted to the orchids for there oil and fragrance and need it to store in their bodies.


What eats brown bee orchids?

Bees and people are two examples of predators of the brown bee orchid. The flower in question (Ophrys fusca) is an example of insect mimicry whereby the color, fragrance, shape and texture fool bees into thinking that part of the bloom is a bee ready to mate and thereby lead them to sip nectar and transfer pollen. People value the roots for a powder that mixes into a delicious, energizing drink with gastrointestinal benefits.


Do orchid bees sting?

Only female orchid bees are capable of stinging. Males do not have a sting apparatus. However, instances of being stung by this bee are rare as orchid bees are solitary creatures and are not aggressive when it comes to defending their nests.


What does a Brazil nut have to do with orchids?

The Brazil nut tree can only be pollinated by an orchid bee, which feeds on a specific type of orchid Coryanthes vasquezii. So without the orchid growing nearby, the tree can not be pollinated and no Brazil nuts (which are actually the tree's seeds) can be produced.


How does reproductive isolation occur. And what is an example?

The mechanisms that restrict gene flow is called reproductive isolating mechanisms. It is achieved through specific breeding requirements which may be physical or physiological. Example-The amazing partnership of the Bucket orchid and orchid bee is so precise that if either one went extinct, the other would follow,. No other orchid can possibly cross-pollinate the Bucket Orchid.