{"id":5727,"date":"2016-10-24T13:41:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2016-10-24T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:42:12","slug":"deceptive-plants-folling-insects-ceropegia-plants-mimic-attacked-honeybees-attract-kleptoparasitic-flies-pollination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/deceptive-plants-folling-insects-ceropegia-plants-mimic-attacked-honeybees-attract-kleptoparasitic-flies-pollination\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceptive Plants are Folling Insects &#8211; Ceropegia Plants Mimic Attacked Honeybees to Attract Kleptoparasitic Flies for Pollination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ceropegia sandersonii<\/em> plant controls female flies of the genus <em>Desmometopa<\/em>. Ceropegia plants mimics attacked honeybees to attract kleptoparasitic flies for their pollination. This study describes a new example of how plants fool and manipulate insects for their own benefits. This is new case of chemical mimicry whereby Ceropegia plants controls carnivorous Desmometopa flies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/pdfExtended\/S0960-9822(16)30879-X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/pdfExtended\/S0960-9822(16)30879-X&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1477402041870000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHl-r02U3UgKyxlBbnXrUqjo4bfEw\">http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-bi<wbr \/>ology\/pdfExtended\/S0960-9822(<wbr \/>16)30879-X<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/flower-lures-pollinators-smell-honeybee-fear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/flower-lures-pollinators-smell-honeybee-fear&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1477402041870000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEFgCIfmI1gbhcXyMXHuEsJp282Sw\">https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/ar<wbr \/>ticle\/flower-lures-pollinators<wbr \/>-smell-honeybee-fear<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-bayreuth.de\/de\/universitaet\/presse\/archiv\/2016\/137en-mimikry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.uni-bayreuth.de\/de\/universitaet\/presse\/archiv\/2016\/137en-mimikry.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1477402041870000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGf8cmoMmeLaIcGfMkuHxH-CY_Rsg\">https:\/\/www.uni-bayreuth.de\/de<wbr \/>\/universitaet\/presse\/archiv\/20<wbr \/>16\/137en-mimikry.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2108328-flower-hijacks-the-fragrance-of-attacked-bees-to-imprison-flies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2108328-flower-hijacks-the-fragrance-of-attacked-bees-to-imprison-flies\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1477402041870000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE8mkgGXHac_wSNWEJg-XUpMUHyuw\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/a<wbr \/>rticle\/2108328-flower-hijacks-<wbr \/>the-fragrance-of-attacked-<wbr \/>bees-to-imprison-flies\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceropegia sandersonii plant controls female flies of the genus Desmometopa. Ceropegia plants mimics attacked honeybees to attract kleptoparasitic flies for their pollination. This study describes a new example of how plants fool and manipulate insects for their own benefits. This is new case of chemical mimicry whereby Ceropegia plants controls carnivorous Desmometopa flies. http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/pdfExtended\/S0960-9822(16)30879-X https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/flower-lures-pollinators-smell-honeybee-fear https:\/\/www.uni-bayreuth.de\/de\/universitaet\/presse\/archiv\/2016\/137en-mimikry.pdf https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2108328-flower-hijacks-the-fragrance-of-attacked-bees-to-imprison-flies\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5729,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions\/5729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}