Pollinating Rare Wild Orchids By Hand Pays Off

Pollinating Rare Wild Orchids By Hand Pays Off Effort To Aid One Of Wisconsin's 48 Orchid Species Bears Fruit A painstaking effort by state conservation biologists to pollinate Wisconsin's rarest wild orchids by hand has paid off: all flowers pollinated by hand produced more seed than flowers left to be pollinated by insects. The results are good news for the eastern prairie