It must also be said that research has found that these orchids tend to slightly underperfect their chemical mimicry, subtly changing some aspects of the chemical concoction to be convincing but not absolutely indistinguishable from the real thing. This makes sense: if they outperformed the female wasps, luring males too well, perhaps male wasps would be so entranced as to not ever copulate with a real female wasp at all. The orchids would risk losing their pollinator. One wonders what the wasp, who might notice the discrepancy, thinks of all this when he decides to copulate with a flower
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