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Male orchid bees are specialised to visit particular species of neotropical orchid. This is a mutualistic arrangement in which the male bee benefits from gathering the fragrance ingredients supplied by the flower which he stores in his hollow hind legs, and the orchid benefits by being pollinated. [1] The male uses the fragrances during courtship.
Neotropical orchids themselves often exhibit elaborate adaptations involving highly specific placement of pollen packets on the bodies of the male orchid bees; the specificity of their placement ensures that cross-pollination only occurs between orchids of the same species. Different orchid bee males are attracted to different chemicals, so ...
Eulaema meriana is a large-bodied bee species in the tribe Euglossini, otherwise known as the orchid bees. The species is a solitary bee and is native to tropical Central and South America. [ 1 ] The male collects fragrances from orchid flowers, which it stores in hollows in its hind legs.
Euglossa cordata is a primitively eusocial orchid bee of the American tropics. [2] The species is known for its green body color and ability to fly distances of over 50 km. Males mostly disperse and leave their home nests, while females have been observed to possess philopatric behavior. [3]
Euglossa is a genus of orchid bees ().Like all their close relatives, they are native to the Neotropics; an introduced population exists in Florida.They are typically bright metallic blue, green, coppery, or golden.
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Diuris decrementum, commonly called the common bee orchid, [2] is a species of orchid which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is similar to the bee orchid ( Diuris laxiflora ) but its flowers are smaller and on a shorter flowering stem.
Chiloglottis cornuta, commonly known as the green bird orchid, [2] is a species of orchid found in south-eastern Australia and in New Zealand, including many of its offshore islands. It has two broad leaves and a single green or pinkish flower with six to eight rounded, flattened green, reddish or blackish calli on the labellum .