Bee orchids don't only look the part; they produce a perfume identical to the pheromones of female wasps. The scents drives males so crazy, they often prefer the plant over the real thing.

 

The attractive flowers mimic an insect feeding on a flower – with a furry lip that looks like the body of a bee, 2 sepals (the outermost parts of a flower) that look like antennae and another 3 outer sepals that resemble large pink petals.

 

As a result of this deception and an attractive scent, male bees try to mate with the lip of the flower, known as pseudocopulation. The bees unwittingly bring about pollination of the orchids by transferring pollen to the female parts of the next flower they visit.

 

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