Hi again! You have a really nice way to add entries to your blog, and awesome subjects as well, cheers!
I won't claim I'd knew anything about this plant before your post, but I actually thought that flies could be the pollinators for these umbrella flowers before I looked it up on google and found more about that beautiful flower. I also assumed it would use some kind of trap for the pollinators and I wasn't wrong. I found this useful info and learned that these flowers are completely criminal scammers lol... they attract a certain type of flies that are looking for dead(ish) honeybees scent (an "alarm liquid" they release when in danger) on flowers and do they only not have any dead bees nor food to give the flies, they even trap a starving flie for as much as 24 hrs! They release them and are even able to attract the flies again in an endless cycle! This method actually has a name, "deceptive pollination" and I'll quote a text from the source, in case you don't feel the urge to read the full article outside steemit. Cheers and have a great week everybody!
"A mixture of substances emitted from the glands of the struggling or dying bees helps the flies to find their favourite prey. "These substances (we also refer to them as 'alarm pheromones'), which are released in moments of great distress, have a scent that is as about as appetizing to the flies as the aroma of a Sunday roast is to humans," explains Annemarie Heiduk. The Bayreuth scientist has demonstrated that the parachute flowers produce no fewer than 33 substances that are also emitted by honeybees that have been fatally attacked. Together, these substances produce a floral scent so deceptively similar that it tricks the flies with nearly perfect chemical mimicry. To the surprise of the flies, instead of enjoying a feast, they plunge into the plant's pitfall flowers."