So many orchids treat their pollinators so nastily, with false promises of food and sex or the occasional dunking of insect visitors into bucket-shaped petals full of liquid, that naturalists have puzzled over the relationship for more than a century.

Darwin was so consumed by the odd interactions that after “The Origin of Species,” his next book was an entire volume on the subject, “The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects.”

As long as they concentrate their natural insecticide leanings on wasps and mosquitos, I don't mind...
Nature's way of Birth Control....?

Oh, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar baby . . . especially if the honey is ever so tasty.

Dig deep enough and there is (almost) always an explanation