Many Creatures In The Animal World,

are known as 'living jewels',

 and here is potentially the best contender, photograph Thomas Shahan/Flickr, it is the Euglossines, aka Orchid Bees, which are often described as the world’s most flamboyant bee tribe, and looking at their brilliant metallic coloration, it’s easy to see why, as well as their stunning metallic colors, they have two other things that make them stand apart from other bees, their incredibly long tongues, that can be twice the length of their bodies, the second is that to mate, they must become a perfumer!

   

over their three to five-month lifespan, male of this bee tribe will concentrate most of their time and effort to collecting various fragrances and create their own unique perfumes, which they then use to impress females, male orchid bees use their forelegs to collect fragrances from all kinds of surfaces, from orchids to vanilla pods and even scented pieces of paper, and then store them in specially designed pouches on their hind legs. When they are ready to mate, males gather in special display sites on tree trunks where they release some of their stored scents while buzzing, flying out from the tree, and then returning, interestingly, while males are often baited by scientists with single synthetic compounds, female orchid bees are not impressed by single fragrances, regardless of their intensity, but rather by olfactory cocktails. If no female wants to mate with him, the male orchid bee knows he just has to collect more scents and create a better perfume, the above video describes how all of this works, totally fascinating, grab a coffee and take a look.