It’s a very rare quirk among flowers: Female jack-in-the pulpits kill their own pollinators.
that a male insect leaves wasted sperm as well as pollen on a flower. Yet he doesn’t get even a sip of nectar . Similar scams have turned up among daisies: A few dark bumps that a human in bad light might mistake for an insect canpetals. Enthusiasm wanes with repeated disappointment though . And among irises, a species dangles velvety purple petals where deluded insects wallow.
These oddball flowers depend mostly on pollinators that deserve a much bigger fan base: fungus gnats. These gnats, small as punctuation marks and hard to identify, are true flies. But don’t hold that against them. They don’t stalk picnic spreads or buzz-thump against windows. Pollinating gnats “are very frail,” Suetsugu says, and their wings make no noise a human can hear.
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