Only the male orchid bees pollinate the orchids.

只有雄峰才对这种兰花授粉。

The female orchid bee needs the male, which in turn needs those orchid flowers.

雌性兰花蜂需要雄性兰花蜂，后者又离不开这种兰花。

In fact, these orchids use a very special group of bees called Euglossine, or orchid bees.

事实上，这种兰花是通过一种名为长舌蜂的蜜蜂来授粉的，也叫兰花蜂。

And the female orchid bees are one of the few insects that are big enough and strong enough to open the flowers.

雌性兰花蜂是少数几种个头够大、力量够强能够进入胡桃花的昆虫之一。

The agouti needs the female orchid bee up here to pollinate the flowers so those seeds are produced in the first place.

刺鼠需要雌性兰花蜂为花朵授粉，保证能够产生种子。

Collecting this perfume is so important to a male orchid bee that it may fly miles all over the forest in search of it.

收集香料对雄性兰花蜂来说十分重要，它会飞到数英里外寻找花朵。

The intricate relationship between the male orchid bee and the flowers is the reason that brazil nut trees like this one can only grow in intact rainforest ecosystems.

雄性兰花峰和花朵的关系是巴西胡桃树为什么只能在原始的热带雨林生态中生长的原因。

And so many look nothing like the bees we picture like orchid bees with their super long tongues in iridescent colors, or this parasitic cuckoo bee with bluish markings from Africa.

而且很多蜂类看起来一点也不像我们想象中的蜜蜂，比如有着彩虹色超长舌头的兰花蜂，或者这种来自非洲的带蓝色斑纹的寄生杜鹃蜂。