Both the 'fragance' and the flower's meat-colouration attract pollinators - carrion flies and beetles.
This family is composed of the blowflies, carrion flies and cluster flies.
Other insects that are attracted to pawpaw plants include scavenging fruit flies, carrion flies and beetles.
The plants are pollinated by insects such as dermestid beetles or carrion flies, attracted by the fetid odor of the flowers.
Calliphoridae (commonly known as blow flies (or blow-flies), carrion flies, bluebottles, greenbottles, or cluster flies) are a family of insects in the order Diptera, with 1,100 known species.
For example, tubular red flowers with copious nectar often attract birds; foul smelling flowers attract carrion flies or beetles, etc.
When I listened, I heard the thrum of carrion flies.
More validity, More honourable state, more courtship lives In carrion flies than Romeo.
A yellow carrion fly landed on his nose, but he didn't see it, didn't feel it.
