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Take for example Ophrys sphegodes, the early spider orchid, which has flowers resembling a spider's abdomen, but also reproduces the sex pheromones of certain mining bees.

The early spider orchid relies on deception to reproduce.

This research throws a big monkey wrench in the Australian government’s recovery plan for the grand spider orchid.

Those preliminary results are not unprecedented, either: the early spider orchid is already known to flower several days earlier each year than it did at the turn of the 20th Century.

The early spider orchid was found on a grass roof at Swanage sewage treatment works by ecologists from Wessex Water after staff changed their usual mowing process.