The patterns and structure of Brassia orchids resemble a spider in its web enough to encourage these wasps to lay their eggs in the plants' blossoms and in doing so pollinate them.
Brassia caudata; 7) Christmas orchid (Cattleya trianae); 8) Dracula spectrum (or Masdevallia spectrum); 9) Cattleya (Laelia elegans); 10) Coelogyne pandurata; 11) Taphinia randi. Chromolithograph, ...