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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute?
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2 .Orchids are botany's great mimics, all in the service of getting pollinated.
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3 .Some have evolved to resemble female wasps to attract males.
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4 .Others produce odors that smell like potential mates or like more attractive flowers.
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5 .Now a study published in the journal Current Biology adds another form of floral fabrication to this list:
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6 .an orchid that releases the exact same chemical compound that honeybees use to alert their hive mates.
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7 .Why? Because the bees are the favorite food of the larvae of Vespa hornets.
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8 .And when the orchid Dendrobium sinense sends out these false alarms, the hornets pounce on the petals, thinking they'll bring a bee dinner home to the kids.
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9 .Instead they become unwitting pollinators.
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10 .Researchers were intrigued by the hornets' mysterious violent attacks on the orchids.
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11 .They were able to isolate the pheromone the flower uses to drive the hornets wild.
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12 .The finding might find use in agriculture.
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13 .The Vespa hornet is a big pest for commercial beekeepers.
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14 .This research could help develop environmentally friendly, species-specific traps to control the Vespa population, and take the sting out of these problematic pollinators.
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15 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer.
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