Crickets Pollination

While observing how orchid plants pollination, scientists had found out something interesting. Strangely, orchid plant doesn’t pollinate like other plants, their pollination is performed by crickets. This fact had surprised most scientists because they would expect that the wind or bird or other insects to transfer the pollen from the anthers to the stigma. It wasn’t that shocking to find that cockroaches and lizards to carry pollen, but crickets was the first. Besides that, scientists also concluded that crickets and orchids are in a mutualism condition. Mutualism is when both organisms are dependent on each other to survive. The orchids need the cricket to pollinate the flowers, and the crickets needs its nectar as food. They also describe this as biodiversity and reunion of the crickets and orchids. Biodiversity is defined as a relationship of different kind or species of organisms that exist in a same area. Reunion is the meeting of the cricket and the orchid which seems to fit together. Though it maybe a surprised, but it’s not as shocking that different species are connected and are dependent.

Reproduction of plant is how all organisms survive. Without plants, there would be no food source for other organisms either to eat or to survive. Pollination is also a biology concept because this is how an organism gets what it need and how it reproduces. Observing plants is one way to express biology concepts because they have cells that functions inside them and reactions performing in plants.

We should care because when this little small fact and connection between the crickets and orchids are new and surprising, there might be other bigger fact that are not yet discovered in this world. Though this fact doesn’t affect us, others might. Therefore, we should always keep our mind open for those upcoming discoveries. Also, if this was a plant acts as food source, we should know how it’s pollinated and help it to not extinct.

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20100203/Note2.asp