SURROGATE PREFERENCE. “Male pollinators can prefer orchids to real females, prematurely end a copulation with a real female to visit an orchid, or be unable to find real female mates among false orchid signals. Crucially, pollinators would suffer significant costs if orchid deception causes pollinators to ejaculate and waste their sperm…which may indeed occur.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022