Close up of a raspy cricket pollinating an orchid on the island of Reunion
An orchid researcher, based on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean and collaborating with researchers at Kew, has used motion-sensitive night cameras to capture the first known occurrence of a cricket functioning as a pollinator of flowering plants. The cricket is pollinating an orchid named Angraecum cadetii.
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- Kew Video: First known instance of a cricket as an orchid pollinator captured on film by Kew scientist
- Kew News article: Cricket as an orchid pollinator
- More about Orchids (Orchidaceae)
- Orchid Research Newsletter
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