Mediterranean orchid (ophrys) employs sexual deceit to get pollination done by a species of bee. So it must be commenalism , but ncertsays it is mutualism. I m confused! !

No, it is mutualism since both the organisms are being benefited. the flower is getting pollinated while the while the bee pseudo copulates with the flower supposing it to be a female bee

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No,it is mutualism.If the bee does not visit the flower,it would not be pollinated and get extinct.and if the flower does not allow the bee to live on it,the bee would not be able to pseudo copulate
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But what the bee is getting doesn't exist in real. There is a cheating. ..
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but the bee believes it to be real..that is enough.
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Alright....
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