article_snippet.sent: At night, the non-flowering relative of conifers secretes tiny droplets of sugary fluid to attract pollinating insects.
article_snippet.sent: the non-flowering relative of conifers ooze from a peculiar plant’s female organs where seeds are produced.
article_snippet.sent: When a nocturnal butterfly or insect lands on one of the tasty transparent orbs at night, the pollen it’s carrying is used to fertilise the seed.
article_snippet.sent: To our astonishment, even cones that appeared too young to be pollinated… secreted pollination drops from a pore-shaped micropylar opening during the peaking period at full moon.
article_snippet.sent: our observed the exact opposite; drop secretion was weak to non-existent and pollinators were absent.
article_snippet.sent: While the globules materialised on E. foeminea at full moon, the same was not true of a relative found in the area.
article_snippet.sent: At night, the many pollination drops glitter like diamonds in the full moonlight, a spectacular sight also for the human eye.
highlights_snippet.sent: Experts from Stockholm University studied plant in Greece and Croatia .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Plant's 'aim' is to seduce insects so insects will fertilise its seed .
  