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The mechanism of pollination is extremely intricate. The insect,
while trying to fix its legs, slips into the spaces between
the appendages and further into the narrow slots between the anthers,
right inside, toward the so-called corpuscules--structures that work like
traps. The trapped leg is fixed between the two corpuscules, and flat paired
bodies of pollen--pollinia hang on the claws of the insect. When it moves to
another flower, it again slips into the slots between the anthers and tucks the
pollinia right into the hidden pollen-receptive cameras.
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