Beetle on Flower
As this beetle bumbles along, moving from flower to flower, the hairs on its body collect pollen. The pollen is thus moved from flower to flower and the plants are fertilised.
What a perfect example of the way in which Nature adapts herself, and of the way in which the lives of various plants and creatures interlock.
But, wait a bit...
Clearly, the hairs on the shell of the beetle are important to the flower - but what do they do for the bug himself? Obviously, he needs the flowers - without the flowers he might die of hunger - but natural selection by mutation, and the subsequent survival of the "fittest" being has to favour that being directly and immediately. What evolutionary advantage is there for the beetle in having a body which gathers up dust and dirt?
Answers on a postcard.....