Bug Has Sex with Orchids

[Mugu]

Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience, LiveScience.com via Yahoo

Orchids may be enthralling to humans, but our love of these flowers only goes so far. Some wasps, on the other hand, find orchids so enchanting that they sexually climax while visiting them.

The discovery sheds new light on the extremes to which flowers can evolve their beauty.

A number of orchids mimic female insects to entice visits from males looking for love. The goal of these counterfeits is to dust the flying Romeos with pollen, which contain plant sperm. When these males rendezvous with other flowers, they then act as unwitting couriers of this pollen, helping the plants breed.

Scientists had thought such deception was harmless, but researchers now find males of a species called orchid-dupe-wasps go all the way with Australian tongue orchids, wasting their precious bodily fluids in the process.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080428/sc_livescience/bughassexwithorchids;_ylt=ArXvom0ZV2VBm7khxY.2mThxieAA">Complete article

[Crunchy Frog]

1. Nature can be so pornographic.

Thankfully the God fearing people in our government are doing everything they possibly can to destroy it, and cleanse the Earth of its filth.

[Spike89]

25. Promoting violence and objectification of orchids

Shame! Bee porn has no place in a progressive forum! And where exactly were you going with that bouquet?

[heliarc]

2. That's hot... nt

[Adsos Letter]

3. I'll never look at the flowers in my garden the same way again...

oh...oH...OHHHHHHHH...AAAAHHHHHHH...!!!




Pardon me while I step out for a smoke... :D

[yellowcanine]

4. So a new insult is born.....wait for it.......

ORCHID SLUT!

[CoffeeCat]

5. How long before the wacko conservatives....

...develop some kind of insect-based abstinence-only program?

[yurbud]

6. somebody is going to do something vile at a flower shop because of this post.

[Submariner]

7. Yeah....the guy having sex with a picnic table a couple of weeks ago

will be hard to top, but there are probably some pervs heading for the Home Depot Garden Center as I type this post.

[yurbud]

9. just don't say anything about leaf blowers or wood chippers...

[Lady-Damai]

8. Interesting.... n/t

[Leftist Agitator]

10. Hey, Mugu!

419eater.com

:)

[bobbolink]

11. Floral sex is a fascinating study.

And, yes, children enjoy learning in this way.

Even us old kids.

:) :hi: :)

[Gman]

12. The comments potential for this thread are infinite...

[Orsino]

13. Pollen goggles. n/t

[yodermon]

14. Wouldn't this make a great headline for Greatest page?

I mean compared to what's there now.
hint.

[BigDaddy44]

15. How about that funny feeling climbing the rope in gym class in Jr. High

Or...was that just me?

[chemenger]

16. Probably beats sex with another bug.

eom

[PCIntern]

17. Probably beats sex with a Chimp.

Ooops, did I just say that?

[Elidor]

18. Oh, my. 'Precious bodily fluids' and males covered with sperm

This interspecies sex sounds pretty kinky

[girl gone mad]

19. Anyone who has ever seen Robert Mapplethorpe's...

photographs of flowers and flower parts knows just how sexy they can be.

:)

[Eurobabe]

20. Damn, I was expecting photos

:(

[Solly Mack]

21. Sure, blame the Orchid. Horny wasp can't control itself? hmmm? hmmm?

[Canuckistanian]

23. That Orchid was asking for it

Those low-cut petals, the exposed sepals... and I won't even MENTION those voluptuous carpels....

[LeftishBrit]

22. I managed to read this as 'Bush has Sex with Orchids'!!!

[King Coal]

24. I knew that years ago from Uncle Fester on the Addams Family show.