The perfume that male orchid bees craft from collected scent molecules is crucial to attracting mates - no perfume means no offspring
The perfume that male orchid bees create by collecting scents from the flowers they visit is designed to make females choose them rather than another mate.
Male orchid bees collect raw materials from multiple sources, including the orchid flowers they pollinate. These are used to concoct perfume mixtures that are stored in specialised hind-leg pouches, but the purpose of the perfume hasn’t been known for sure.
First, the researchers gathered perfumes from wild males. Next, they collected male bees that had freshly emerged from pupae and added the perfumes to the hind-leg pouches of some of them. Then, Henske and his colleagues introduced the male bees, one by one, into two flight cages that already contained female bees, flowers and nesting materials. One perfumed male, one non-perfumed male and up to 20 females were present per cage at any time.A monthly celebration of the biodiversity of our planet’s animals, plants and other organisms.
The single non-perfumed male that scored a mate turned out to have somehow acquired the perfume in his pouch. Researchers believe he stole it from another male bee, which the
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