Green-comb Spider Orchid at Bruce, ACT
Identification history
| Caladenia atrovespa | 15 Oct 2021 | TobiasHayashi | ||
| Caladenia atrovespa | 15 Oct 2021 | dgb900 |
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1 comment
CathB
wrote:
15 Oct 2021
It looks like a fly was visiting this flower. These orchids are usually pollinated by thynnine wasps and I was lucky enough last week to see one visit one of these flowers and fly off with pollinia attached. It all happened too quickly to photograph though.
Location information
- Maps Black Mountain
- Places Bruce, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 15 Oct 2021 06:51 AM Recorded on
- dgb900 Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Orchids dgb900 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Caladenia atrovespa Scientific name
- Green-comb Spider Orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 376 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Arachnorchis atrovespa
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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