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Obligate Mutualism: Yucca and Moth

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Each species of yucca plant (left) has a relationship with one species of yucca moth (right). After a female moth mates, she collects pollen from a yucca flower and places it on the stigma of another flower, then lays her eggs in that flower’s ovary. Moth larvae develop in the fruit that develops from the floral ovary. When mature, they gnaw their way out and disperse. Seeds that larvae did not eat give rise to new yucca plants.
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