{"id":37986,"date":"2021-06-13T19:44:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=37986"},"modified":"2021-06-17T19:09:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T03:09:54","slug":"fake-orchid-pollen-isnt-all-that-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/13\/fake-orchid-pollen-isnt-all-that-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Orchid Pollen Isn&#8217;t All That Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some orchids are tricksters. They fool pollinators into thinking they offer rewards like food, or even a mate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/05\/bees-and-hoverflies-gobble-fake-pollen-benefiting-both-insect-and-plant?utm_campaign=NewsfromScience&amp;utm_source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">But not all their tricks are so devious.<\/a> <em>Cypripedium wardii<\/em>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/lady-slippers\/\">Lady Slipper<\/a> native to China and Tibet, tempts bees and hoverflies with fake pollen. This pseudopollen entices insects into visiting the blooms, where they also pick up the flowers&#8217; real pollen. However, scientists have discovered that the pseudopollen is nutritious, and the insects eat it. Since they&#8217;re receiving benefits for their work, it&#8217;s not a ruse. It&#8217;s another one of the cunning pollination strategies in the orchid family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some orchids are tricksters. They fool pollinators into thinking they offer rewards like food, or even a mate. But not all their tricks are so devious. Cypripedium wardii, a Lady Slipper native to China and Tibet, tempts bees and hoverflies with fake pollen. This pseudopollen entices insects into visiting the blooms, where they also pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37986"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38135,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37986\/revisions\/38135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}