Temptation and Trickery: Dirty Double-Dealing in “Orchid & the Wasp”
IN 1922, A HOUSEWIFE from Blackburn, Australia, outed a new species of orchid that imitates the genitalia of female wasps to swindle male wasps into trying to mate with it. Her story is chronicled in a book called The Wasp and the Orchid, but an infinitely more engrossing and duplicitous protagonist is featured in the Orchid & the […]
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