This photograph, from The Sex Life of Flowers by Meeuse and Morris, is an example of mimicry in which the orchid has evolved to resemble a female bee. The male, trying unsuccessfully to mate with ...

Natural camouflage is one of nature’s greatest gifts in the animal kingdom. Sure, some animals have deadly toxins or surgically sharp claws, but these are active forms of defense. Camouflage is the ...

Scientists have unlocked the mystery of mimicry used by Dracula orchids to attract flies and ensure their survival. Researchers did it using a 3-D printer.

The San Francisco Orchid Society celebrates Carnaval a week behind most of the world at this year's Pacific Orchid Exposition, opening Feb. 26 at the Fort Mason Center. Carnaval's all about ...

The orchid uses both visual and olfactory mimicry to resemble a female wasp. This mimicry lures male wasps into attempting to mate with the flower, during which they pick up or deposit pollen.

While you may need to squint a bit to see how certain plants look like animals, such as gaura flowers, others have a resemblance that is fantastically stark, like bee orchids.

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Mimicry is another one, and it crops up all over the plant world. A kind of orchid, for example, convincingly mimics the scent and shape of a female thynnid wasp.

Chinese scientists have found that orchid mantises, hailed as a classic example of flower mimicry, use their petal-shaped legs for gliding.

Some will be as tall as 12 feet but always remain proportionate between pollinator and flower, said Elton. Orchids can grow in ... The slipper orchid uses chemical mimicry to attract hoverflies ...

Rather than displaying cryptic mimicry as researchers once thought, orchid mantises display aggressive mimicry. Flowers serve as the mantis’s feeding grounds.