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14-SEP-2004 Alexander Dudley

Spider orchid

Yengo National Park, NSW Australia

It is a greenhood orchid, really. I found this little guy waiting hopefully for little passersby while I was in a gully waiting for it to
get dark enough to look for possums and owls- which was my real job at the time.

Note the hole in the base of the flower probably caused by a European honeybee chewing through to get the nectar, thus robbing
the orchid of pollination opportunities provided by the native insects.

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1/125s f/22.0 at 59.0mm iso100 full exif

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