that's never been filmed before?

這是從來沒有被拍攝之前？

And what if that something is high up in a tree, in the middle of a wild swamp,

如果那個東西在高處的樹上，在野生沼澤的中間呢？

in one of the most unexplored places in North America?

在北美最未開發的地方之一？

Well, this short documentary we're about to show you is about a team doing just that;

好了，我們要給大家看的這部短片就是關於一個團隊的做法。

filming something that has only ever been hypothesized.

拍攝的東西，只有曾經的假設。

The pollination of the ghost orchid.

鬼蘭花的授粉。

The mystery about this rare flower has actually become an obsession to solve.

關於這種稀有花卉的謎團，其實已經成了一個解不開的迷。

But is it worth getting rained on while trudging through alligator and snake infested water?

但是，在鱷魚和蛇出沒的水中跋涉，被雨淋，值得嗎？

for these guys...

對於這些傢伙...

that answer is a wholehearted "Yes".

這個答案是全心全意的 "是"。

Now from Grizzly Creek films,

現在從灰溪電影。

this is Chasing Ghosts.

這就是《追魂》。

The Swamp itself is steeped in mystery.

沼澤地本身就沉浸在神祕之中。

Holding a wildness that is so increasingly rare in modern life.

持有一種現代生活中越來越少見的野性。

There's this fairy-like, ghost-like thing dancing off the edge of a tree.

有這個像仙女一樣，像鬼一樣的東西在樹邊跳舞。

It just deepens the mystery.

這只是加深了神祕感。

It deepens the power of those places.

它加深了這些地方的力量。

There's just nothing like it

沒有什麼能比得上它

the way as these curling tendrils in that long nectar stem, the artistry is in the form itself.

就像那長長的蜜莖中這些捲曲的卷鬚一樣，藝術性就在形式本身。

There are so few of them.

他們的數量太少了。

They're so endangered and so elusive that we hardly know anything about them.

它們是如此的瀕危，如此的難以捉摸，以至於我們對它們幾乎一無所知。

We all have this inherent desire to know the answers.

我們都有這種與生俱來的渴望，想知道答案。

This is something that is in our backyard that science doesn't know yet.

這是我們後院的東西，科學還不知道。

What pollinates the ghost orchid?

鬼蘭花的花粉是什麼？

You know, this is the burning question that has outlasted generations of scientists.

你知道，這是一個超越了幾代科學家的迫切問題。

This summer, we're like, you know what, if we're gonna do this, we got to go all in.

這個夏天，我們就像，你知道嗎， 如果我們要做到這一點，我們得去全身心投入。

This team that's going about it in different ways.

這支隊伍，正在用不同的方式去做。

We are up 50 feet in a cypress tree.

我們在50英尺高的柏樹上。

Carlton is having to wade through waist deep water and then paddleboard miles and heads.

卡爾頓要涉過齊腰深的水，然後用槳板劃上幾英里，頭。

The chase of this photo is definitely pushing all of us.

這張照片的追逐，絕對是在逼迫我們所有人。

Your breaking point.

你的突破點。

I don't actually know the ingredients of obsession.

其實我不知道迷戀的成分。

Maybe it's a chance of trying something that seems impossible.

也許這是個機會，可以嘗試一些看似不可能的事情。

Orchids are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world.

蘭花是世界上種類最多的開花植物群體。

There are about 25 - 30,000 species.

大約有25-30,000種。

The most iconic orchid pollination story is one that Darwin was interested in 150 years ago.

最具代表性的蘭花授粉故事是150年前達爾文感興趣的。

And it involves an orchid in Madagascar that has a nectar tube that's over a foot long.

而這涉及到馬拉加西的一種蘭花，它的蜜管有一尺多長。

And Darwin had predicted that a moth must have a tongue that's that matches the length

達爾文曾預言，飛蛾的舌頭一定是長短一致的。

of the nectar tube.

的蜜管。

This thing was so extreme that his

這個事情太極端了，他的

expression was "Good heavens, what insect can suck it?"

表情是 "天啊，什麼昆蟲能吸到它？"

Here in South Florida. It's the most diverse place for orchids in the United States.

這裡是南佛羅里達州這裡是美國最適合種植蘭花的地方。

And so was really drawn to the ghost orchid because how little was known about it.

所以真的被鬼蘭花吸引了，因為對它的瞭解是多麼的少。

It's all about this game of enchantment.

這就是這個遊戲的魅力所在。

You know, it's this nondescript twig like leafless plant growing on the side of a cypress

就是這種不起眼的小樹枝一樣的無葉植物 長在柏樹的旁邊

tree until it pushes this ephemeral ghost-like flower for the sole purpose of attracting a pollinator.

直到它把這種短暫的幽靈般的花朵推到樹上，唯一的目的就是吸引傳粉者。

A super specific flower adapted and co-evolved to a super specific pollinator.

一朵超特殊的花適應並共同進化出了超特殊的授粉者。

It's always been suspected that the giant Sphinx moth pollinates, the ghost orchid based

一直以來，人們都懷疑是巨型斯芬克斯蛾授粉，鬼蘭花根據

on the size of the moth, the length of the tongue, in a scientific sense, we need to

在飛蛾的大小、舌頭的長短上，從科學意義上講，我們需要。

prove that.

證明了這一點。

This is the perfect embodiment of the scientific process.

這就是科學過程的完美體現。

Here's the theory.

這就是理論。

Let's put it to the test.

讓我們來測試一下。

Mack and I've been talking about trying to photograph ghost orchids being pollinated

麥克和我一直在討論如何拍攝鬼蘭花授粉的問題。

going back to 2014.

要追溯到2014年。

Here's how I'm going to try to do it.

下面我就來試試怎麼做。

And the idea is actually to use camera traps and sleep out in the swamp for however long

而這個想法其實是利用攝影機陷阱，在沼澤地裡睡多久就睡多久

it takes.

它需要。

The hard part too, though, is that the ghost like the way those roots are and how old it is, and is all over

不過，難的也是，鬼喜歡那些根的樣子，多老的時候，都是在

that, that's got to be a 50 year old orchid by the size of those roots.

那，那一定是一個50歲的蘭花 由這些根的大小。

It's a ghost orchid here in corkscrew swamp they've called the super ghost and that is

這是一種鬼蘭花，在開瓶器沼澤地，他們稱之為超級鬼，那就是：

because it produces so many flowers every single year.

因為它每年都會開出那麼多的花。

and has a massive roots that just spider out in all directions.

並有一個巨大的根，只是蜘蛛出在各個方向。

And it's not just one bloom.

而且不只是一朵花。

It's not two blooms.

這不是兩朵花。

It can get up to 16 blooms at a time, which is insane.

它一次最多能開16朵花，這太瘋狂了。

I've got bud envy.

我已經得到了芽羨慕。

[laughter]

[笑聲]

It's a nonstop moth party.

這是一個不間斷的飛蛾派對。

"Yeah"

"是的"

Well, I hope it is.

嗯，我希望它是。

Into the swamp.

進入沼澤地。

"You got everything?" "Yeah, ready?"

"你都準備好了？" "是啊，準備好了嗎？"

When we started undertaking this project I called Peter, who is an expert in orchids

當我們開始進行這個項目時，我打電話給彼得，他是蘭花專家

who worked for years on pollination attempts.

誰在授粉嘗試上工作了多年。

Peter's an animal, he actually went out in the swamp for weeks at a time and stood on

彼得是一個動物，他實際上去了 在沼澤地幾個星期的時間，並站在上

a ladder, aiming an infrared video camera at a ghost orchid,

梯子，用紅外攝像機對準鬼蘭花。

patrolling different flowers, hoping something would come.

巡邏不同的花，希望能有所收穫。

It was so frustrating for so long, that I was almost just ready to walk away from the whole

它是如此的沮喪這麼久，我幾乎只是準備從整個走開

thing.

的事情。

And then Mac, Carlton, were kind of like you know,

然後Mac和Carlton就像... ...你知道的那樣。

yeah, well, you're meant to do this.

是啊，你註定要這樣做。

We gotta do this.

我們必須這樣做。

I was ascending and Mac was coming up as well.

我正在上升，麥克也上來了。

And he looked up the trunk and just saw a Giant Sphinx moth.

而他順著樹幹往上看，就看到了一隻巨大的斯芬克斯飛蛾。

They are so camouflaged.

他們是如此的偽裝。

I don't I have no idea how Mac even spotted it.

我不... ...我不知道Mac是怎麼發現的。

The moth is sitting right there.

飛蛾就坐在那裡。

And we're kind of wondering, you know, is the sun going to set in this thing is it going

我們有點想知道，你知道，太陽會不會在這件事上落山？

to take off and fly right to the orchid and pollinate it?

騰空而起，直飛蘭花，為其授粉？

Tonight might be the night.

今晚可能是個好機會

These ancient canopies that used to extend all over the southeast, they hold an entire

這些古老的甬道，曾經延伸到東南各地，它們承載著一整個

ecosystem.

生態系統。

This ghost orchid is a relic of that ecosystem of how it used to be.

這株鬼蘭是那個生態系統的遺蹟，它曾經是如何的。

I think for Mac, the chance to come here to Corkscrew, to go to this amazing ghost orchid

我想對Mac來說，有機會來到Corkscrew這裡，去這個神奇的鬼蘭花。

and try to put a camera trap there is something no one had even thought of doing.

並試圖把一個攝像頭陷阱有什麼東西，甚至沒有人想到做。

And so while I'm having to climb up 50 feet to see and photograph mine, Carlton is by

所以當我不得不爬上50英尺高的地方去看和拍我的照片時，卡爾頓卻在這裡。

water trying to make this image happen.

水試圖讓這個形象發生。

We're kind of on parallel pursuits to try to answer this question.

我們是在平行的追問中試圖回答這個問題。

Part of the obsession for me, the biggest part of the intrigue, is where this orchid lives.

對我來說，執著的一部分，最大的一部分陰謀，就是這株蘭花住在哪裡。

Because these are the wildest, most inaccessible places we have left in the state of Florida,

因為這些都是我們在佛羅里達州留下的最狂野、最難以到達的地方。

arguably, in the East.

可以說，在東方。

They're these deep, flooded, remote swamps, twisted and gnarled trunks forming these cathedrals.

它們是這些深沉的、被淹沒的、偏遠的沼澤，扭曲的、虯結的樹幹構成了這些大教堂。

It's dark, it's green, it feels like you're in the Amazon, or in some other world.

它是黑暗的，它是綠色的，它感覺就像你在亞馬遜，或在其他世界。

Wading waist deep amongst alligators, panthers bears...it's really easy to get really wild,

在鱷魚、豹熊之間涉足腰深......真的很容易讓人覺得很野。

really remote, really quick.

真正的遠程，真正的快速。

We're getting walloped. By down pour here.

我們被大雨衝昏了頭腦這裡的大雨。

here

此處

actually loved it.

其實很喜歡。

And they range like this.

他們的範圍是這樣的。

It feels like the swamp comes to life and I do too.

感覺沼澤地活了起來，我也是。

I wouldn't be surprised if we get an inch of rain and we can actually see this swamp rise.

如果我們下了一英寸的雨，我不會感到驚訝，我們可以真正看到這個沼澤上升。

There is a really strange fervor about these orchids.

對於這些蘭花，真的有一種奇怪的狂熱。

I didn't understand it at first, but I used to say "they" those people that are crazy about

我一開始不明白，但我習慣說 "他們 "那些人，是瘋狂的

this effort, I now have to say "we" because I'm doing things that I would never do. I stay

這種努力，我現在不得不說 "我們"，因為我在做一些我從來沒有做過的事情。I stay

up at night. I cannot sleep.

在晚上。我睡不著。

The ghost orchid frenzy is real.

鬼蘭花的狂熱是真的。

One in 10 of these ghost orchids actually produced a flower each year.

在這些鬼蘭中，有十分之一的鬼蘭每年居然開出了花。

And of those one in 10 actually get pollinated.

而其中有十分之一的人真正得到了授粉。

So if you stack up the odds, and you'd have to put out 10 cameras on 10 different blooms

所以，如果你疊加的機會，你必須把10個攝像頭在10個不同的花朵上。

to have a probability of one moth coming

有可能出現一隻飛蛾。

to moths are so rare. Is there even a moss in the vicinity that could pollinate this.

到飛蛾是如此罕見。難道附近連個苔蘚都能授粉。

There's a reason why it hasn't been documented before and that's because it's really really

之所以以前沒有記載，是有原因的，那是因為它真的真的是

difficult.

困難的。

...craziest thing just happened. I was looking down changing out my battery and then pop

...最瘋狂的事情剛剛發生。我正在低頭換電池，然後彈出...

up a pop up.

了一個彈幕。

Camera went off 10 times I thought it was a false trigger.

攝影機響了10次，我以為是誤觸發。

Now I looked up in like 12 inches from my face.

現在我抬頭看了看離我臉12英寸的地方。

There is a moth sitting on the orchid flower.

有一隻飛蛾坐在蘭花上。

Scrolling through literally 1000s of photographs.

滾動在字面上1000多張照片。

Had itty bitty moths, that they were just kind of hovering in space, medium sized moths landing

有小飛蛾，他們只是一種盤旋在空間，中等大小的飛蛾降落。

on the flower but no capability to get any nectar as a reward.

在花上，但沒有能力得到任何花蜜作為獎勵。

There's one photo where the orchid is bounces out of the frame down and out of the frame

有一張照片中，蘭花是在畫面中向下彈出，出了畫面的範圍

up.

了。

I'm like "What in the world is going on", and there's a little frog.

我就想 "這到底是怎麼回事"，有一隻小青蛙。

It was hanging off of it.

它是掛在上面的。

So you're getting like this window into this microcosm, that happens around this bloom.

所以，你得到像這樣的窗口 進入這個微觀世界， 這發生在這個綻放周圍。

So let's keep these cameras going.

所以，讓我們繼續這些相機。

Let's see what we have after the end of a couple months.

讓我們看看幾個月結束後的情況。

Just the ones that are about to open is 1, 2, 3, 4.

只是即將開放的是1、2、3、4。

But then I count eight more after these four.

但我數了數，在這四個人之後，還有八個人。

See what this baby's got. Yeah.

看看這個寶貝有什麼。是啊 Yeah.

Go up, get to the camera.

上去，到攝影機前。

I hit play.

我按了播放鍵。

And I started scrolling through images.

我就開始滾動瀏覽圖片。

And I remember my heart jumping.

我還記得我的心在跳。

Yeah.

是啊。

He's right across from me.

他就在我對面

And I said, Peter, I've got I've got orange on the flanges.

我說，彼得，我... ...我的法蘭上有橙色。

He's like, what, as like, orange on the wings.

他就像，什麼，就像，橙色的翅膀。

You looks at this.

你看這個。

And he goes, "Dude. You have the first ever photo of a Giant Sphinx moth at a ghost orchid"

然後他說："老兄你有史上第一張巨型獅身人面飛蛾在鬼蘭花的照片"

So you have this elongated body of the giant Sphinx, kind of arching back and its wings

所以你有這個巨大的獅身人面像拉長的身體，有點向後拱，還有它的翅膀。

are spread and it's hovering.

是鋪開的，而且是懸空的。

And it's proboscis is out right in front of the orchids.

而它的探針就在蘭花的前面。

And it's just sitting there.

而它只是坐在那裡。

It's like it was just, it was just placed.

這就像它只是，它只是被放置。

There are multiple frames of this giant Sphinx.

這個巨大的獅身人面像有多個畫面。

And I started looking at them closely. I zoomed in and looked at the face of this moth.

我就開始仔細觀察它們。我放大了眼睛，看著這隻蛾子的臉。

And it is covered, just covered with a different kind of pollen, pollinia, most likely from

而且它被覆蓋了，只是覆蓋了一種不同的花粉，花粉菌，很可能是來自於...

a moon vine.

一株月季藤。

And I'm looking at it even closer, and I'm thinking, wow, you know, it's got its proboscis

我更近地看著它，我在想，哇，你知道，它有它的長鼻。

all the way into this flower.

一直到這朵花裡。

And yet, it's faces still an inch or two inches out of the flower.

然而，它的臉還在花外一兩寸的地方。

Could it be that the giant Sphinx actually has a proboscis

難道巨型獅身人面像真的有長鼻？

that is almost too long to get its face into the orchid?

這幾乎是太長了，讓它的臉進入蘭花？

Could it be that the Giants Sphynx it's actually robbing nectar from this flower?

莫非巨靈鳥它其實是在搶奪這朵花的花蜜？

Peter and I were both like, you know, this kind of turns the whole theory on its

彼得和我都很喜歡，你知道，這是一種轉身 整個理論上的。

on its head.

在它的頭上。

This existing idea that this is the only pollinator is perhaps not actually providing any benefit

現有的這種認為這是唯一的授粉者的想法，也許實際上並沒有提供任何好處。

at all to the flower.

完全不對花。

And that was a wild moment.

那是一個瘋狂的時刻。

So discovery opens up this whole new kind of Pandora's box, there are all these other

所以，發現打開了這個全新的潘多拉盒子，有所有這些其他的。

things that add more questions.

的事情，增加更多的問題。

We as humans, like a simple story, but it seems that at least in this case, reality

我們人類，喜歡一個簡單的故事，但似乎至少在這種情況下，現實中的

is a little more complex.

是比較複雜的。

an hour, five in the morning.

一個小時，早上五點。

One in the morning. 10pm, I cycled through a couple more nights and all of a sudden,

早上一。10點，我又循環了幾個晚上，突然。

bam, there is a huge moth, right on the lip of this ghost orchid. It's huge.

咣噹，有一個巨大的飛蛾，就在這個鬼蘭花的脣上。好大啊

There's a moth that was bigger than anything I expected to see.

有一隻飛蛾比我想象中的都要大。

It has so much weight when it lands it like brings the orchid down out of frame and then

它有這麼多的重量，當它的土地 它像把蘭花下來的框架，然後。

back. A moth of that species visited this orchid three times.

回。該種蛾子三次造訪此蘭花。

So I shared these with Peter and colleagues.

所以我把這些分享給彼得和同事。

And that's when everyone started getting really excited.

這時大家才開始真正興奮起來。

It was like so this is a giant Sphinx and I was like No, and he was just like, damn.

他說這是一個巨大的斯芬克斯，我說不是，他就說，該死的。

And I was like, Dude, it's way more interesting.

我當時想，夥計，這是更有趣的方式。

Like, this was never even suspected before.

就像，這是從來沒有懷疑之前。

You know, like I'd never even thought of that Fig Sphinx being pollinated.

你知道，就像我從來沒有想過那個無花果獅身人面像會被授粉一樣。

There's pollinia on the face.

臉上有花粉。

That's like that's the money shop.

這就像那是錢莊。

These discoveries basically are unprecedented.

這些發現基本上是前所未有的。

Each photo that Mac and Carlton get, lends a new perspective into the behavior.

Mac和Carlton得到的每一張照片，都能從一個新的角度來觀察行為。

And it's not just about ghosts now.

而且現在不僅僅是鬼的問題了。

Pollination is critical to our livelihoods.

授粉對我們的生活至關重要。

Good ol' Chuck Darwin would be proud of this.

老查克-達爾文一定會為此感到驕傲的。

Yes, there is a physical image at the end of the day, but it is the journey of getting

是的，在一天結束的時候，有一個物理影像，但它是獲得的旅程。

to that.

對此。

That is what's so rewarding.

這才是最有意義的。

And especially in a place that we care so much about.

尤其是在一個我們非常關心的地方。

Over the past three years, dozens of trips hundreds of hours.

在過去的三年裡，幾十趟上百個小時。

I've fallen in love with these very specific corners of these remote swamps.

我已經愛上了這些偏遠沼澤地的這些非常特殊的角落。

We still have these truly wild stories that the rest of the world doesn't know about.

我們還有這些真正的野性故事，其他的世界不知道。

Thanks for watching Seeker Indie's premiere of Chasing Ghosts.

感謝收看《追鬼》的尋人獨立首播。

It's stories like these that can inspire more discoveries, more adventures and new ideas

正是這樣的故事，可以激發更多的發現、更多的冒險和新的想法。

that may one day help save our planet.

可能有一天會幫助拯救我們的地球。

Now let's talk to them.

現在讓我們和他們談談。

We want to know what motivated them how it all came together.