Living fossils have hot sex: study

[chokkan 2]

It sounds like something out of "Star Trek" -- a tropical plant that uses toxic and come-hither odors and rising temperatures to ensure pollination. But in fact, this scenario is straight out of nature. In a paper released Thursday, US biologists report that the Australian cycad, a primitive tropical plant with large seed cones, uses a novel "pull-push" method to manipulate the tiny flying insects, or thrips, that it relies on for pollination.

[RatBastich]

Them lil bugs are getting pimped by those plants, but thats their way, and nature always finds a way to get something done.