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human
How does mimicry in plants work, how can a plant "tell" what an insect looks and feels like?

Are those plants somehow able to recognize colors? Do they have some kind of sense analogous to sight?
gpt
The plants can't tell. The insects, however, can tell what the plants look like. So if a plant looks like a female bee, or whatever this is just a hypothetical example, then a male bee is more likely to try to mate with it and pick up pollen.

Because those tricky plants who look the most like the bee are more likely to have pollen taken/given from them, they are more likely to reproduce. In the next generation, then, there will be some plants who look more and some who look less appealing to the bee. The ones who are more appealing are obviously more likely to reproduce than the ones who look less appealing. Therefore plants that look more like the bee are selected for and, very gradually over many generations, the mimicry will get more and more accurate.