Biologists for the first time opened a predatory flower, which attracts pollinators by the smell of decaying insects, and not mammals. Other representatives of this kind imitate SMARD rotting plants, mushrooms, meat or animal feces, reports Eurekalert.
Aristolochia Microstoma Flower imitates a unique “aroma” due to a mixture of volatile substances, which contains alkylpirazine rare substances. They stand out in the process of decomposition of dead insects than attracting pipe flies from the genus MEGASELIA.
When insects sit on Aristolochia Microstoma, he closes them into a trap. Fly from her can be able to get out of it after transfer to the pestle to pollen. In addition, the colors of this plant are located low to the ground, which serves as an additional bait for flies. Usually they are looking for food or reproduction sites in leaves or stones.
A similar strategy, which is based on insect deception, apply about six percent of flowering plants
around the world. They attract their “victims” bright color, odor and other ways.
Previously, scientists called the most disgusting smells in the world. These were the aromas of the fruit of Durian, the Rafflesia Arnoldii flower, the cheese of Viere Boulogne, the planet uranium and others.