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August 21st, 2010 | 
Author: Some stinky plants do more in attracting insects vile smells. They trap their insect visitors and hold them prisoner for a time, the wildflower known as Dutchman’s-pipe with an example. Previously plant’s flower is shaped something like a stale pipe tobacco, with a narrow neck leading to the round room. When the flower first opens, taking you straight neck and sends a nauseating stench.
Gnats and other small flies rush to the neck, expecting to find something to eat rotten and slippery in the room below. Then they can not get out. The inside of the neck is covered with stuff, downward-pointing hairs that keep them from crawling back up. After a few days, the flower droops. Tips neck sideways and the hard hair in it does. The flies could finally leave. Stopping the insecrs is not just a mean trick. A Dutchman’s-pipe flower pollen makes it only after his female side is longer receptive.
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