CarolineJay

By CarolineJay

POLLINATOR

I was peering into the strange flower on my pitcher plant, which is even more exotic looking now than when it first appeared a couple of weeks ago, and wondering what might pollinate it in the wild when a big bumble bee flew into it and did the pollinator equivalent of a bull in a china shop, crashing about inside the confined centre, knocking the anthers all over the place and rubbing around the stigma before it found its way out again.

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