{"id":39603,"date":"2022-01-16T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=39603"},"modified":"2022-01-25T20:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T04:47:37","slug":"donkey-orchids-and-their-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/16\/donkey-orchids-and-their-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Orchids And Their Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Perth, Australia, biologist Daniela Scaccabarozzi, PhD, uncovers the complicated lives of Donkey Orchids. Named for their petals which stick up like donkey ears, Donkey Orchids such as <em>Diuris magnifica<\/em> and <em>Diuris brumalis<\/em> don&#8217;t offer nectar. However, they resemble nearby flowers which do. This food mimicry tricks bees into visiting. Failing to find nectar, the bees involuntarily help with pollination. Check out the videos below for more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What can a donkey orchid tell us about its ecological relationships?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RGniLNnb5RI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diuris brumalis (Orchidaceae) is masquerading as pea plants - Dr. Daniela Scaccabarozzi\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2PGk4FCV7Y8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Perth, Australia, biologist Daniela Scaccabarozzi, PhD, uncovers the complicated lives of Donkey Orchids. Named for their petals which stick up like donkey ears, Donkey Orchids such as Diuris magnifica and Diuris brumalis don&#8217;t offer nectar. However, they resemble nearby flowers which do. This food mimicry tricks bees into visiting. Failing to find nectar, the [&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":[22,10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603","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=39603"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39620,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603\/revisions\/39620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}