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Photo by Eric Jackson

Is it a guy thing?

What you see here is mimicry, in a sense one of nature's forms of pornography.

What? The using the p-word to describe what flowers do?

Yep. These orchids look like bug-eyed, well, insects. Some orchids even put off pheremones to smell like ultra-sexy --- insects. It's to attract little critters in search of some hot and heavy action --- "hot and heavy" if you're, for example, a bee, anyway --- to the artificial lure, where in the course of their visits they will pollinate these flowers. Male homo sapiens go for artificial sexual lures printed on paper or celluloid, or on video screens, all the time. And it seems that men aren't the only ones.

This photo, like most of the orchid pictures that appear in The Panama News, was taken in Neal Smith's orchid garden at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Tupper Center in Ancon.

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