It’s evolution, plants don’t feel colour or that they attract insects, it’s just their shape and scent makes them more attractive => they reproduce better than other specimens, that makes certain aspects of their flower getting in the gene flow of population, becoming a norm. They probably started with a regular orchid flower (which itself is already very complicated).
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