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the bumblebees; on the other hand, many insect species are organized in their bodily form, especially in their mouthparts, toward visiting specifically shaped blossoms. To intuitive beholding, an organic unity of plant and insect of a higher order presents itself. One need only look at orchid blossoms — for instance those of the bee orchid. Its blossom has the appearance of an insect that has not yet come to independent life. Thus Rudolf Steiner rightly speaks of the butterfly as the liberated blossom, and the blossom as the captive butterfly.