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TIL the Mediterranean orchid Ophrys that employs sexual deceit to get pollination done by a species of bee by evolving one of its petal to bear resemblance to the female of the bee in size colour & markings thus attracting the male bee into pseudocopulation, pollinating the flowers in the process

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