There is a tropical orchid with a flower that looks and smells like the female of a certain species of wasp. Males of this species emerge one week before the females, but these orchids are already blooming. The male wasps smell the orchids, think they ve found a female, and try to copulate. The texture of the flowers is such that they feel like a female wasp, but the poor males just can t get it to work, leave to find a more cooperative mate, and end up transferring pollen instead. The adaptations exhibited by any given flower depend on the type of pollinator the flower is designed to attract.
Bees don t see red, but do see blue, yellow, and ultraviolet.
The flowers typically have a delicate, sweet scent, which the bees can smell. Usually the nectar is at the end of some type of small, narrow floral tube which is the right length to fit the tongue of the particular species bee that pollinates that plant. Typically, pollen sticks to the fur of a bee or else the bees collect the pollen in specially-modified areas on their legs. They can see red. Butterflies typically walk around on a flower cluster, probing the blossoms with their tongues.