Curiously, it’s male bees you’ll most often find sleeping in flowers. Yet ... These sites primarily house a queen and the female workers. The female workers and male bees, called drones ...

in a spot near a flower patch. Unlike bumblebees and honeybees, solitary bees don’t form colonies and live in hives, so this bee hotel is the perfect place for a female to lay her eggs.

Generally we think of flowers as ... scents of coconut or even rotting meat. Some orchids, however, appear to offer the promise of sex: They have evolved to resemble female versions of certain ...