Chasing Ghosts

In their quest to identify the pollinator of the ghost orchid for the first time a team of explorers photographers and filmmakers spent three summers standing waistdeep in alligator and snakeladen water swatting air blackened by mosquitoes and climbing to sometimes nauseainducing heights They came away with a startling new discovery and an even deeper love for Floridas wildest wetlands revelations that may help to conserve both the endangered orchid and its shrinking home