Sexual Deception by Orchid lures Wasp to mate with it

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13642-orchids-sexual-deception-triggers-ejaculation.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head

Excerpt: Gaskett thinks that the peculiar reproductive lives of the wasps might explain why males have not evolved to discriminate against orchids. Female wasps reproduce asexually - that is, without male help - to spawn males, while sexual reproduction between both sexes produces only females.

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