A team of evolutionary biologists has discovered that some plants mimic scent of pollinating beetles. Flowers of the Arum family: Amorphophallus hewittii (left), Sauromatum guttatum (middle) and Taccarum weddellianum (Florian Schiestl / Stefan Dötterl / University of Zurich) Previously, researchers always assumed that floral scents and the fondness of pollinating insects for a specific scent evolved mutually via co-evolution of plants and insects. But...
