Rare Occurrence: Cricket Pollinates Orchid

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 10:28 in Biology & Nature

This night-vision video captures this first-known occurrence of a cricket acting as a pollinator. This newly discovered species carries pollen as it retreats from orchid flowers. [Reunion Island, Indian Ocean]

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