The female wasps visit the orchid flowers to collect the chemical that the male wasps were attracted to earlier. The female wasps do not have a role in pollination since the flowers are dying when they visit them.
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《高中英语》
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Reading on P.78
Warming up
Discuss the question: What’s the relationship between plants and animals?
Pre-reading 1 Before you read the text, glance
Yucca flowers, a Traveller’s Palm, and an Ophrys orchid. 4. What three animal pollinators are featured?
The yucca moth, the Madagascar black lemur, a certain kind of wasp (the male, not the female wasp).
The male wasps try to mate with the orchid flowers because they look like and smell like female wasps.
5. Why do the female wasps visit the orchid flowers? Do they have a role in pollination?