 » Site Navigation | | | |  | 
05-23-2009, 10:50 AM
|  | Puritanboard Botanist | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Oceano, CA, USA
Posts: 5,469
Thanks: 1,887
Thanked 2,411 Times in 1,140 Posts
| | | Pluerothallis schiedie the trickster
Here's a cute orchid. Only the size of a child's fist, and it blooms for me several time per year.
It's tough being up a tree in a Mexican rain forest. You're always competing for pollinators, but you don't want to stand out or you get eaten.
So, Pleurothallis schiedie makes waxy droplets which hang from the edges of her flower, and puts on black dots as make up.
Whenever there's the slightest wind, these waxy baubles wiggle like maggots, and the black dots look like baby flies. So, passing flies think it's a prime nursery area for their eggs, they land on the orchid, and thus get pollination without having to expend the energy necessary to make nectar. 
__________________
Tim Vaughan
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian, OPC,
Santa Maria
California
| | The Following 8 Users Say Thank You to TimV For This Useful Post: | |
05-23-2009, 11:04 AM
|  | Puritanboard Graduate | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Thankful...
Posts: 3,238
Thanks: 640
Thanked 1,057 Times in 606 Posts
| | |
Incredible!!!
__________________
John
Member
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Salt Lake City, Utah www.christpres.net |
05-23-2009, 11:07 AM
| | Puritanboard Botanist | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Oceano, CA, USA
Posts: 5,469
Thanks: 1,887
Thanked 2,411 Times in 1,140 Posts
| | |
Sometimes I think that today's best example of the seared conscience spoken of in Romans is holding onto the belief in evolution when you really start studying nature.
| | The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to TimV For This Useful Post: | |
05-23-2009, 11:08 AM
|  | Puritanboard Graduate | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kansas City, MO
Posts: 3,666
Thanks: 2,140
Thanked 967 Times in 581 Posts
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by TimV  Sometimes I think that today's best example of the seared conscience spoken of in Romans is holding onto the belief in evolution when you really start studying nature. | I believe you're right.
|
05-23-2009, 06:31 PM
|  | Reformed Dane | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Breum, Denmark
Posts: 6,346
Thanks: 2,713
Thanked 1,013 Times in 735 Posts
| | |
Great Pic
|
05-23-2009, 06:40 PM
|  | Puritanboard Graduate | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ukiah, California
Posts: 3,996
Thanks: 1,458
Thanked 1,108 Times in 695 Posts
| | |
Wow. Our God is good.
| |
| Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | |
|
To follow Christ was the best decision God made for me! 
