ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 2月26日 04時36分

Photo by @carltonward | After three years of obsessively trying, I finally got my camera traps in the Fakahatchee Strand to capture the first photographs of ghost orchids being pollinated, helping solve one of the great mysteries in the Everglades. Because of its size, the giant sphinx moth was long thought to be the sole pollinator of the ghost orchid, but this photo shows a pawpaw sphinx moth likely pollinating a ghost orchid (notice the yellow pollen cluster on its head). This is just one of six species my cameras captured as they probed and potentially pollinated ghost orchids. Fellow @insidenatgeo explorers Mac Stone and Peter Houlihan got similar results with a camera trap pointed at a ghost orchid 50 feet (15 meters) up in a cypress tree, and they developed a new hypothesis that the giant sphinx moth might be the original orchid thief—and not a ghost orchid pollinator after all.
Check out Nat Geo's Instagram story today with links to an article and the film "Chasing Ghosts" about our team's quest and discoveries. Please follow @carltonward @macstonephoto and @peter_houlihan for more. #Florida #everglades #ChasingGhosts #orchid #pollination

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