Sneaky Orchid Tricks a Wasp | The Green Planet | BBC Earth 

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@@AxxLAfriku you make cringe content. Garbage material. No thanks kiddo

Shouldn't waste good nuts

@Fingering Kitty oh please no

Maybe an anime bodypillow instead of a plant

Normal day in California.

@Ifana,,, 💋👇 children watch these videos you know..

The smart female waits until the man gets his fuckboyness out of the way before taking her turn. So maybe the female wasp is thankful for the plant, haha.

LMAO

@@ryanwells7842 I dunno man, lotta people that just prefer masturbating to the real thing. An especially common issue in long relationships.

Not too different when compared to women and anime girls, if you think about it.

the orchid is just the future for us, we'll be having androids eventually

The plant doesn't take his money.

😂😂

i'm more concerned a plant knows what a wasp looks and smells like.

turpuss it supposedly is all by accident, #NoDesign

How does a plant even evolve to do this? The design seems so complex. It's hard to believe in evolution when you see things like this. Seems more like it was made by God.

@@David-ex6hv you gotta think of the time scale, tens of millions of years spent refining and honing this trait.

I was also surprised about the hinge thing.

Please...stop

This needs to be top comment, it's so good

@@WaveOfDestiny thank you sir

@@allanfernandes982 because you’re a fellow Al I will graciously… never stop.

LOL

Literally 'blind' date

"I don't wanna talk about it".

Idk I got Roofied again 😂

Wordplay, Nice ! 😂😂😂

don't you mean... plantfished?

Wasps are absolutely essential to the health of ecosystems.

Those damn aggressive wannaBees

😂😂

@@tastethejace You are an educated person. Also, I pick up or pet all kinds of wasps and have never been stung. They don't bother me one bit. Don't be afraid, be a friend, and don't get stung. Works for me. Edited for typo.

As if there aren't already dozens of other things that pose an actual threat to wasps rather than just leaving them bamboozled. Bears take on social wasps whenever they get the chance for those delicious larvae, humans are probably the only thing to take on wasps while not always having the intent to eat them, birds are probably the biggest enemy of any solitary wasp, even wasps take on other wasps. This is less of a "finally" and more of "just another thing screwing with wasps, and for once it fortunately isn't beating them senseless, setting them on fire, and/or eating their children".

This is the dumbest comment I’ve read in a long time

@@_sofie that time of month eh?

😆😆😆

@@_sofie Lucky you. Most of us aren’t fortunate enough to remain so sheltered.

He likes some gymnastics in bed

**boisterous screaming, followed by a backflip and high fiving the audience**

@@Gyrbae As the poor little orchid watches, choking back sap.

😂😂😂😂

lets mate :3

_Grab her waist._ _Pull her close._ _Lift her up._ *_PRIMARY LOTUS!!_*

@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 he unlocked all 8 gates of pain!!! 😱

I apologise for the person who made the lude and inappropriate comment above.

Not really

Tucker Carlson and an M&M.

@@yousillygoose6958 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ept2Jlnrg1k.html Amazing Bird nest video😇👍

Hymenoptera finna pollinate a gymnosperm whether it wants to or not.

Standard theory is that it started probably whit a slight bit of red which gave an advantage and any generation whit more red is also more likely to spread there genes which ends up whit some real weird stuff over time.

@@kingoliever1 I would believe that too

Well from a creationists point of view, it's the work of God. It's physically impossible for it not to be, like for example the vanilla bean flower only blooms one day then it dies, it has a special little flap over the pollen, the only insect that can get in are the Mexican bees. So if it weren't for bees, vanilla goes extinct, they also know when to pollinate, they both have to be created together for if there are no vanilla flower there is no bees, and no bees there is no vanilla beans, they must coexist together at the same time. Or like the artic bird that flies to Hawaii all the way to the artic to lays its eggs, then flies back. When the chick hatches and grows it flies to Hawaii. How is it physically possible for a small bird fly for hours, possibly days without end get there? If evolution was true it would be dead for they say that it would fly a little further each time but that's not possible for there is no land at all in-between the flight, it's shark bait if it drops, also memory isn't genetic, you can't pass on memories to your offspring, so how does a chick who has never flown in its life, with no parents know exactly what to do and where to go? Or like a lot of cephilpods (octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) are all color blind but yet it can change to the exact color. Lightning produces a gas when it strikes, this gas goes into the rain and the rain goes down and gets absorbed by the plants and the plants get the nutrients from the Lightning. So after a thunder storm a lot of plants grow a lot better for it got fertilized. Or let's say for the simple butterfly, when it's a caterpillar how does it know it needs to change and become a butterfly? When it goes into its cocoon it's whole body get liquefied, how does liquid know how to recycle its cells? The caterpillar is dead but the cells aren't, how does nature know how to do that? If that happened today it would be known as a dead bug, but it doesn't for God tells its cells to become something a butterfly. Or like some small creatures like frogs or some insects, they have a type of antifreeze so when they get iced over their blood doesn't freeze, how is that possible in the evolution standpoint? Wouldn’t it die if it doesn't have antifreeze? The answer is yes it wouldn't survive. A giraffe has spicets all along its neck, when the giraffe goes to get a drink its large heat pumps and squeezes the blood going down instead of going against gravity, this is problematic for if it's no longer going against gravity how much power is it going down with gravity? Well it would be enough power to blow its brains out, but it doesn't why? Well I tell you, all them arteries and spicets close and the remaining blood goes into the sponge underneath his brain. Let's say if laughably evolution succeeded the first part but then sees a lion, it walks a few steps then faints for the blood is not in its brain, dead giraffe can't evolve, but it doesn't faint because the rest of the blood that's in the sponge get squeezed and goes into its brain. Spiders when they molt need to put an acid on their backs so they can make a door so they can get out, put it in the wrong spot it dies, waits too long it dies. Bombarded beetles make an acid, not just any acid a 3 combination chemical acid. The first 2 doesn't do anything but the 3rd one does, it's the reaction. It has twin tail tubes and can maneuver them in any direction and when it sprays its acid it does it sporadically, why? Well because if it did it all at once it would shoot itself out of there, so spraying sporadically it helps its feet to hold on. Also all 3 chemicals are separated, if evolution was true, how does nature know that these 3 chemicals make an explosive acid? And if it wasn't separated it would have exploded, dead bug can't evolve, just the one or two chemicals nothing would happen, dead bug. Also look at DNA when it replicates, it sends an enzyme down itself looking for errors and fixes them, how does our bodies know how to do that? If evolution was true with trial and error you would be dead, for once DNA goes of track you are going to die. Everything works together too perfectly, even when Steven hawking's idol studied all of these things he became a creationists and when he challenged Steven hawking he refused for he knew he would lose. Steven hawking have said "the universe exists for it knew it needed to exist." Well Mr hawking how does a universe without God, think or even have thought? Impossible, I tell you to study zoology, biology and ecology without any bias or choosing any sides just look at the facts, not guesses nor theories just written proven and retestable facts. If you read a lot of journals and papers you'll find out that scientists hardly know anything about the world, a lot of it is guessing, like yawning scientists have no idea on why we do it or why it's contagious or being ticklish they don't know why either just theories. Did you know that they have came up almost with no new information about menstruation for about 100 years. They still don't how it happens, again theories but no real conclusions. Scientists still can't figure out whose a main or subspecies of the 9 species of giraffe or 8 of zebra. They still have no idea what the earth's core is.

@@annabollig6704 lol I think u just proved to me we’re in a simulation. Everything you described seems like it was coded into our reality like a computer. Every thing in this world has too much order. It’s like everything runs a little bit too perfect if you know what I’m saying. How is it that we aren’t getting hit by asteroids more often. We’re literally floating in the middle of space exposed to everything and anything. It’s as if something is keeping peace and order to this universe at all times. It’s Pretty scary when you think about it.

Selective breeding

Yeah, and all this by chance. Chance must be very ceative:)

He should start narrating macba skateboarding games

Its "Sir David Attenborough". Hes been knighted two times, one by the queen in 1985 and again about a month ago by prince Charles. Hes more respected than the prime minister

It doesn’t boggle when you know how awesome the Creator is 💯

@@antoniorincon7574 yea real awesome of the big G to make a species of fly that only lays its eggs in infant eyes, after which the larvae eat their way out. You can credit God for creation, but you then have to admit that God is indifferent to human suffering, which I don’t find awesome at all.

@@ThePopeOfAllDope You can try to explain and give them reason but they will never understand.

@@kwando472 it’s still fun enough for me to do

​@@ThePopeOfAllDope Without misery how can we know what is joy. Yin and Yang, Heaven and Hell, Light and Dark etc etc etc. 'God' is funny how 'he' works don't you think?

What evolution? Evolution is pseudo science. There is no way the theory of evolution can account for what we saw in the video. Evolution is a mythology of magic.

Somebody should tell them haha

You want one of the many Carnivorous Plants for that effect. The can catch lots of wasps.

that's orchid mantis job

Nah, you dont get to tell me what to do

@@seribelz You're definitely sped

@@seribelz Whoa everyone watch out, you're gonna get hurt if you try to stop them from picking their flowers lmao

@@ev6558 ohh no I'm picking a flower, the whole ecosystem will collapse

@@seribelz You are the person that promotes extinction of species by your arrogant destruction. You are the problem with society.

For me it's more like looking at a flower that went through all five stage (flower life cycle)

You are right about that, mind you our eyes are also too fabulous be able to see all the details. everything is a miracle

Most advanced? How do you quantify that? Every species on life has been evolving from the common ancestor for the same amount of time, from that perspective everything is equally evolved

You ok?

@@jacklonghearse9821 why you asked that ?

That took a turn.

I'm proud of you.

woah, what a way to twist your emotions at the end, I hope your parents see the happiness you have and maybe a success in it aswell

If you think about it, the plant then proceeded to bust on the wasp's back lol (y'know pollen, semen, it's basically the same stuff)

Thanks for explaining what the video clearly should have explained.

Thanks for explaining something that the video clearly explained.

We know, we watched the video

It's adventure time.

It just has a flimsy joint, so when the wasp tries to fly away with the "female" it instead is flung on the pollen sack, so the plant doesn't have to do any movement.

It doesn’t

@@erronblack308 Yes, they surely do move that lure against the wasp's wishes.

Broadly speaking, at some point between generations a happy accident occurs that improves a species's ability to survive and/or reproduce, so over subsequent generations they start to dominate the population.

@@Stratelier I’m sure this sounds stupid but like how do they copy color and shape when they can’t see? Scent replication I can kind of understand but I don’t get how plants visually mimic things they can’t actually see

@@willcookmakeup That's just the thing, it _doesn't_ (at least, not "knowingly") and in this case it's specifically the _wasps_ who determine what traits help the orchid reproduce. Basically, at some point a plant (or a few) put out a strange flower that made nearby wasps think "yeah, I'd hit that" and the rest ... is history. Say one year an orchid plant got its colors wrong, mistakenly produced yellow flowers instead of red ones. If the pollinators ignore it because it's the wrong color then it might end up an evolutionary one-hit wonder and disappear without a trace, perhaps never to be seen again. BUT if the pollinators think these new blondes are sexier than their usual redheads and it gets pollinated more widely, within a few years you might see fewer red flowers and more yellow. Not because the plant was "trying" or "wanting to", it was just doing normal plant things and happened to get lucky (pun intended) in its genetic lottery.

So something that can be hard to remember is that this stuff doesn't just happen over night, or even in the span of a few hundred years. This is quite literally millions of years of evolutionary back and forth. Small changes in both creatures through the generations until we see the uh, relationship, that has blossomed today. We also don't see the myriad of failures. how many other plant species there may have been that had started on that same path, but took a wrong turn and died out?

@@willcookmakeup plants have awareness

I know right lol it had a threesome!!!😂😂😂

Lmao, nice try. Oh I'm in awe of the complexity of the worm/human relationship. How did the loa loa worm develop to live in that young childs eye, making them blind in total horror, the wonder of mother nature and your great creator.

Hi from France. Genetic diversity (to produce many shapes, colors and smelly molécules), law of averages (a lot of wasps and orchids + a lot of time to meet), "luck" and perhaps horizontal gene transfer. :-)

I don't get all the hate here in this comments section. Lol The earth we live on and the living things on it are indeed mind boggling and amazing!

Evolution is a wonderful thing

@Harrison Dudley and yet I can see and test for one and not the other🤷‍♂️

The plant doesn't "learn" anything. Mutations randomly happen. The natural selection of those mutations is NOT random. Some of those mutations attract wasps more than other orchids. Those orchids that attract more wasps to spread pollen are more likely to pass on their genes, and over many generations the orchids become more and more attractive to the wasps. Here's a potential sequence for how this exact orchid evolved: Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of years ago, a normal orchid produced offspring that had a mutation that made it slightly smell like female wasps. The orchids with this mutation attracted lots of pollinators, so this gene was quickly passed down and eventually dominated the gene pool. Some time later, these orchids that slightly smelled like wasps produced another orchid with a mutation that makes it smell even more like a female wasp, and _that_ orchid now attracted the most pollinators, so that gene was quickly spread and became dominant. This process continues each generation and mutations compound and make the orchid smell more and more like wasps. One day, one of these orchids produces an offspring that has a mutation that makes a little red bump next to the pollen. Now this orchid attracts even more wasps, because it already smells like a female wasp and the males see what looks like a female sitting on the orchid. This gene is more likely to be passed down now so it becomes dominant in the gene pool. Again, as the generations go by, more and more mutations that make the orchid look more and more like a female wasp continue to be naturally selected, because that's what the wasps fly to. One day, and orchid produces an offspring with a mutation that makes the red part curl toward the pollen when a wasp lands on it. This significantly increases the chance of the pollen (genes) being spread which makes that gene get passed down more than others, which eventually makes it dominant in the gene pool. Again, as more and more generations go by, these mutations that improve this mechanism compound on each other, and you get this complex arm after thousands/millions of years. Keep in mind, the mutations are random. Some mutations actually make the orchid less likely to attract wasps. Some mutations break the folding arm mechanism. All of the orchids that have these mutations are not able to spread their pollen (genes) that contain the DNA for these problems, so those errors are removed from the gene pool after they fail to reproduce. This is natural selection, which is not random but also not governed by a consciousness being.

My plant listens when I speak

Not really intelligence in the traditional sense more like evolution

In a way this is sort of like very convincing lady boys.

Tucker Carlson and an M&M.

Glad I'm not a spider. Tarantula-hawks- AAAAARGH! 🥶❕

Imagine how much biological life you kill with every step!

Mutations randomly happen. The natural selection of those mutations is NOT random. Some of those mutations attract wasps more than other orchids. Those orchids that attract more wasps to spread pollen are more likely to pass on their genes, and over many generations the orchids become more and more attractive to the wasps. Here's a potential sequence for how this exact orchid evolved: Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of years ago, a normal orchid produced offspring that had a mutation that made it slightly smell like female wasps. The orchids with this mutation attracted lots of pollinators, so this gene was quickly passed down and eventually dominated the gene pool. Some time later, these orchids that slightly smelled like wasps produced another orchid with a mutation that makes it smell even more like a female wasp, and _that_ orchid now attracted the most pollinators, so that gene was quickly spread and became dominant. This process continues each generation and mutations compound and make the orchid smell more and more like wasps. One day, one of these orchids produces an offspring that has a mutation that makes a little red bump next to the pollen. Now this orchid attracts even more wasps, because it already smells like a female wasp and the males see what looks like a female sitting on the orchid. This gene is more likely to be passed down now so it becomes dominant in the gene pool. Again, as the generations go by, more and more mutations that make the orchid look more and more like a female wasp continue to be naturally selected, because that's what the wasps fly to. One day, and orchid produces an offspring with a mutation that makes the red part curl toward the pollen when a wasp lands on it. This significantly increases the chance of the pollen (genes) being spread which makes that gene get passed down more than others, which eventually makes it dominant in the gene pool. Again, as more and more generations go by, these mutations that improve this mechanism compound on each other, and you get this complex arm after thousands/millions of years. Keep in mind, the mutations are random. Some mutations actually make the orchid less likely to attract wasps. Some mutations break the folding arm mechanism. All of the orchids that have these mutations are not able to spread their pollen (genes) that contain the DNA for these problems, so those errors are removed from the gene pool after they fail to reproduce. This is natural selection, which is not random but also not governed by a consciousness being.

Yea even a second or two of Wasp Sex

Male thynnid wasps have no sting. They don't live in nests of sting-happy families. Male thynnids spend their lives drinking flower nectar so, yes, he is cute.

Would love to see pictures of them if you have an Instagram or Flickr profile for plants.

Pretty clever trick the orchids have, when the wasp "mates" with the orchid, it sticks pollen to the wasp and when he visits another, he pollinates them. Technically, the wasp did make a baby but between two orchids.

Shut up tomorrow is monday

@@lordaragorn001 tomorrow is Sunday

@@vansh6038 Time zones dummy

@@lordaragorn001 💀 yeah we all hate mondays lmao

@@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916 I was joking It's 12:26 am Monday in my country now

They look or smell nothing like a female wasp until they accidentally do (slightly) because of a small mutation. You can imagine it's just a red patch or something like that, you know, like our birthmarks. Or maybe it's a slightly weird scent. This then rarely causes some wasp to check the orchid out. The wasp steps on some pollen and then flies away. Boom, suddenly, this orchid which is exactly like its "sisters" except for a small detail, is basically more successful at life. It spreads better because of the help of these wasps acting as "biotic pollinators". Now imagine the long game, imagine these orchids reproducing SLIGHTLY better and faster because of that red patch or the weird scent, what happens if you wait 100 years? They slowly become more numerous than the old unmutated orchids. Eventually the old orchids start losing land because they don't spread fast enough (even if it's a small difference, it becomes significant in the long game) so they'd better find another place where they can still compete or they die out, losing to the new mutation. Well, now, there's a good population with lots of individuals and a lot of reproduction going on, this means even more mutations. Evolution accelerates, there's more chance to produce beneficial mutations. And that's exactly what happens, some orchids randomly get a red patch that's more or less of the same size of female wasps, this makes even more wasps come in to check. Boom, they're better, they take over. Then an orchid gets the scent right and the patch right at the same time. Boom Then the patch becomes more thick and fleshy. The cycle goes on until we get this extremely specialised modern species. The plant is stupid as a rock, it doesn't know or think anything, its ancestors just happened to be good mutants and spread better than their siblings.

@@tacitozetticci9308 Wow thank you for your long written well thought out reply. Everything you wrote makes sense but does not explain the complicated hinge to flip over the wasp. Nature really is amazing.

@@robertg6019 The more you go into the details the crazier it gets. Look at the upper part of the fake female wasp, for instance, the plant has evolved a couple of bumps that look like pinces (!) that's amazing. But yeah who knows what that hinge once used to be? Plants have moving parts, like when flowers blossom etc. If you think about it, the hinge also sprouts from the same point as the flowers, so maybe it is indeed a modified flower. But I'll need to look at some specific research to understand how the hinge came to be.

@@tacitozetticci9308 very good description. Just want to add somewhere in the progress, the wasps could also evolved and the female make themselves red to stand out, hence the plant with red colour got advantage, maybe.

@@tacitozetticci9308 Lets not underestimate or scoff at the intelligence of plants by saying that "The plant is stupid as a rock, it doesn't know or think anything,". The plant definitively knows, as there is evidence in some other ways wherein when eaten by herbivores the plants send stress signals which is received by other plants and they make themselves more toxic to the herbivores.

Onahole

Umm

@@nunyabiznes33 or as the non-weebs call it, a Fleshlight

It is just simple. God.

There is no need of consciousness for ​species to evolve, only natural selection that is, as the names says "selection" micro evolution that can help to survival, (and mating), it's the addition of all these micro selection in the right direction wich can be called the intelligence of evolution

Hi from France. Genetic diversity, law of averages (a lot of wasps and orchids + a lot of time to meet), "luck" and perhaps horizontal gene transfer. :-)

At some point there was an orchid ancestor of the orchid in this video that by a random stroke of luck may have had a mutation that made a scent protein it produced smell kinda like lady-wasp, and so it may have attracted male wasps to spread its genetic material that accidentally raised from a simple error in its cellular machinery. Evolution is an incredibly beautiful thing, and we can actually see it happening right now with the spread of covid 19, with some variants that had random beneficial mutations outcompeting previous generations and relatives over the course of the many millions of generations the virus has gone through. No living thing chooses to evolve, it's just that traits brought about by mutation which increase fitness in an individual have a greater likelihood of reproducing and therefore spreading through a population.

@Harrison Dudley That's your opinion and you're free to think it ❤

The plant doesn't have to know anything. How do giraffes know they need long necks? They don't. Their biology controls it, and adapts over millions of years through random beneficial mutations and natural selection

That's not how evolution works. The plant doesn't "know" anything. Mutations randomly happen. The natural selection of those mutations is NOT random. Some of those mutations attract wasps more than other orchids. Those orchids that attract more wasps to spread pollen are more likely to pass on their genes, and over many generations the orchids become more and more attractive to the wasps. Here's a potential sequence for how this exact orchid evolved: Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of years ago, a normal orchid produced offspring that had a mutation that made it slightly smell like female wasps. The orchids with this mutation attracted lots of pollinators, so this gene was quickly passed down and eventually dominated the gene pool. Some time later, these orchids that slightly smelled like wasps produced another orchid with a mutation that makes it smell even more like a female wasp, and _that_ orchid now attracted the most pollinators, so that gene was quickly spread and became dominant. This process continues each generation and mutations compound and make the orchid smell more and more like wasps. One day, one of these orchids produces an offspring that has a mutation that makes a little red bump next to the pollen. Now this orchid attracts even more wasps, because it already smells like a female wasp and the males see what looks like a female sitting on the orchid. This gene is more likely to be passed down now so it becomes dominant in the gene pool. Again, as the generations go by, more and more mutations that make the orchid look more and more like a female wasp continue to be naturally selected, because that's what the wasps fly to. One day, and orchid produces an offspring with a mutation that makes the red part curl toward the pollen when a wasp lands on it. This significantly increases the chance of the pollen (genes) being spread which makes that gene get passed down more than others, which eventually makes it dominant in the gene pool. Again, as more and more generations go by, these mutations that improve this mechanism compound on each other, and you get this complex arm after thousands/millions of years. Keep in mind, the mutations are random. Some mutations actually make the orchid less likely to attract wasps. Some mutations break the folding arm mechanism. All of the orchids that have these mutations are not able to spread their pollen (genes) that contain the DNA for these problems, so those errors are removed from the gene pool after they fail to reproduce. This is natural selection, which is not random but also not governed by a consciousness being.

Try Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. Don Sutherland gave me nightmares because of that.

Cathy

😂

@@SATANFUCKSMYSOUL look at my birds

I guess they used to look and smell nothing like a female wasp, then at some point some mutation would look red or maybe their regular orchid scent got slightly like females pheromones for no reason at all. Some wasps would then rarely check out the orchid and that slightly increased the efficiency of the plant's pollination (with wasps rarely acting as pollinators) This in turn triggered selection. The orchids that didn't have this mutation would have their land stolen by these evolved orchids, which would spread much faster than the rest of the competition. This then accelerated evolution even more (a larger population brings more possibilities for further mutation meaning further potential for evolution) Then better shapes and better smells would attract more wasps, and today we see something really remarkable, the plant even got the pincers right.

I mean, they wouldn't spread much faster at first, but since we're talking about a long game, even a slight advantage can make the old orchids obsolete, making them die out or evolve into something else in places where they don't lose so much to the newly mutated orchids.(Imagine these ancient orchids eventually getting in a place with no wasps, they would eventually evolve into something else and the new mutation would become useless and stop getting selected. Fast forward some million years and you'd have two completely different species of orchid coming from the same ancestor)

@@tacitozetticci9308 the randomness of mutations do not cut for me with such specific mimicry, even with all the millions of years of tweaking. There has to be something more going on with the plants, that we currently know nothing about. And I do not mean God or Aliens. Our perception of Nature is remarkably limited and hindered by our own expectations; too little ppl think outside the box to do any groundbreaking discoveries, especially with plants & fungi, that are so vastly different from animals, imho~

@@BLAQFiniks yeah, it's a little insane to look at this and think it's all done via random chance

@@BLAQFiniks This works better than the real thing, so of course it's impressive, but it doesn't have to to give the plant an advantage. And a little advantage is everything you need to trigger selection. Even a simple red patch that's about the size of the female wasp is enough to make some male wasps curious. I'm talking about a 0.0..% advantage Orchids last about 2 months. Imagine the hundreds of wasps flying nearby within these two months. They'd probably fly past the regular orchids, maybe a couple would also come down on them by pure chance. But this would be pretty much the same for the orchids with the red patch (wasps would mostly ignore them), but isn't it plausible that maybe 3 or 4 wasps out of all the hundreds would come down to check the weird patch? If that's the case, that's an advantage, game on, selection triggers, then it's just a matter of time. You're looking at an extremely specialised species now, but it didn't use to be like that. I guess in the past it would pollinate in a boring way like other plants, using the wind etc. The wasp gave it a little boost at first, it was just one of the many factors to its survival, but then at some point, the plant got so good at it that its selection completely focused on the wasps. So now you look at it and you think "wow this is so specific, it would go extinct immediately without the wasps, it must have been designed by some god" But no, indeed this isn't even ideal, it's bad design. That's the most common cause of extinction. Species specialise too much then their environment changes and they can't survive anymore, while the generalists keep going. Evolution isn't always good, but it doesn't have to be, evolution is just a natural phenomenon, it doesn't have a purpose.

It doesn't, it would be a gradual process of useful coincidences over generations that steadily bring it to this point. A bias towards certain traits forms because those with those traits pass on their genes best, and so they persist without any thought required. Like first you just have a group of mostly normal flowers that coincidentally smell a little like female wasps, because even with the massive range of chemicals/odors there are, it's easier for the scents to coincidentally turn out similarly when they both have to fit similar criteria to be practical. (the scent has to be attractive, it has to use only the chemicals readily available to the organism, and it can't be too metabolically taxing to produce) Once this starts to become a little helpful, they get an advantage in spreading their genes, and become more common. From there, it slowly snowballs, because to stay competitive, successive generations have to slowly get better and better at attracting wasps, or else they could become obsolete. The higher specificity of species can also end up selected for in a similar process of small but unconscious increments, because if you have one specific kind of wasp that pollinates your kind above all else, that means you not only are less likely to be passed up for other plants, it also means you're less likely to get some other species' useless pollen that you can't do anything with. So once again, a snowball effect starts, one where the plant doesn't have to "think about" anything for these traits to slowly build on each other over time.

That's not how evolution works. The plant doesn't "know" anything. Mutations randomly happen. The natural selection of those mutations is NOT random. Some of those mutations attract wasps more than other orchids. Those orchids that attract more wasps to spread pollen are more likely to pass on their genes, and over many generations the orchids become more and more attractive to the wasps. Here's a potential sequence for how this exact orchid evolved: Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of years ago, a normal orchid produced offspring that had a mutation that made it slightly smell like female wasps. The orchids with this mutation attracted lots of pollinators, so this gene was quickly passed down and eventually dominated the gene pool. Some time later, these orchids that slightly smelled like wasps produced another orchid with a mutation that makes it smell even more like a female wasp, and _that_ orchid now attracted the most pollinators, so that gene was quickly spread and became dominant. This process continues each generation and mutations compound and make the orchid smell more and more like wasps. One day, one of these orchids produces an offspring that has a mutation that makes a little red bump next to the pollen. Now this orchid attracts even more wasps, because it already smells like a female wasp and the males see what looks like a female sitting on the orchid. This gene is more likely to be passed down now so it becomes dominant in the gene pool. Again, as the generations go by, more and more mutations that make the orchid look more and more like a female wasp continue to be naturally selected, because that's what the wasps fly to. One day, and orchid produces an offspring with a mutation that makes the red part curl toward the pollen when a wasp lands on it. This significantly increases the chance of the pollen (genes) being spread which makes that gene get passed down more than others, which eventually makes it dominant in the gene pool. Again, as more and more generations go by, these mutations that improve this mechanism compound on each other, and you get this complex arm after thousands/millions of years. Keep in mind, the mutations are random. Some mutations actually make the orchid less likely to attract wasps. Some mutations break the folding arm mechanism. All of the orchids that have these mutations are not able to spread their pollen (genes) that contain the DNA for these problems, so those errors are removed from the gene pool after they fail to reproduce. This is natural selection, which is not random but also not governed by a consciousness being.

It is mind boggling because it's devoid of logic reason and science. Darwinian evolution is a mythology of magic. A plant somehow magically forms pheromones of a specific insect to pollinate it and that's supposed to be accepted as science and call it evolution? That's a fantasy. There is NO naturalistic process that can even theoretically produce such a thing as we saw in this video it's utter nonsense.

It's called evolution.

It doesn’t. Slowly over many years, the orchids that more closely mimicked the female wasps began reproducing at a higher rate than those that did not. This mutation probably happened by accident but perhaps it was more likely because both the wasp and the orchid absorb mostly the same nutrients from the local environment. Therefore, coming up with the same pheromones or smell from similar ingredients is not too big an impossibility. Also, once the orchids developed the smell of the female wasps (and started attracting the male wasps as pollinators), then it would make sense that the orchids that most closely resembled the female wasp would have a reproductive advantage over those that looked less like her. Evolution via natural selection is quite amazing to think about… 😊

Well, it's not that they "know" per se. It's probably very similar to how some non poisonous animals have evolved to mimic the patterns of others that actually are. If the orchid and the wasp evolved together in the same environment it is not uncommon for one to develop some adaptation that takes advantage of the other's presence.

Because of God :)

@@elamnabi "God"... the answer to make everybody stop searching, finding and learning. The worst one.

Evolution*

Evolution. Mutations randomly happen. The natural selection of those mutations is NOT random. Some of those mutations attract wasps more than other orchids. Those orchids that attract more wasps to spread pollen are more likely to pass on their genes, and over many generations the orchids become more and more attractive to the wasps. Here's a potential sequence for how this exact orchid evolved: Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of years ago, a normal orchid produced offspring that had a mutation that made it slightly smell like female wasps. The orchids with this mutation attracted lots of pollinators, so this gene was quickly passed down and eventually dominated the gene pool. Some time later, these orchids that slightly smelled like wasps produced another orchid with a mutation that makes it smell even more like a female wasp, and _that_ orchid now attracted the most pollinators, so that gene was quickly spread and became dominant. This process continues each generation and mutations compound and make the orchid smell more and more like wasps. One day, one of these orchids produces an offspring that has a mutation that makes a little red bump next to the pollen. Now this orchid attracts even more wasps, because it already smells like a female wasp and the males see what looks like a female sitting on the orchid. This gene is more likely to be passed down now so it becomes dominant in the gene pool. Again, as the generations go by, more and more mutations that make the orchid look more and more like a female wasp continue to be naturally selected, because that's what the wasps fly to. One day, and orchid produces an offspring with a mutation that makes the red part curl toward the pollen when a wasp lands on it. This significantly increases the chance of the pollen (genes) being spread which makes that gene get passed down more than others, which eventually makes it dominant in the gene pool. Again, as more and more generations go by, these mutations that improve this mechanism compound on each other, and you get this complex arm after thousands/millions of years. Keep in mind, the mutations are random. Some mutations actually make the orchid less likely to attract wasps. Some mutations break the folding arm mechanism. All of the orchids that have these mutations are not able to spread their pollen (genes) that contain the DNA for these problems, so those errors are removed from the gene pool after they fail to reproduce. This is natural selection, which is not random but also not governed by a consciousness being.

Because evolution is a mythology of magic not a real world process. It's gonna be viewed as the flat earth of modern science in a few decades.

It is mind boggling because it's devoid of logic reason and science. Darwinian evolution is a mythology of magic. A plant somehow magically forms pheromones of a specific insect to pollinate it and that's supposed to be accepted as science and call it evolution? That's a fantasy. There is NO naturalistic process that can even theoretically produce such a thing as we saw in this video it's utter nonsense.