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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...by large, pale, mostly white or bright yellow flowers, which of themselves render the plants perceptible at some distance; yet, nevertheless, they would be but seldom visited by the moths, were they not attracted by the strong, sweet, penetrating scent. Well-known plants, fertilised by moths, and having pale sweet-scented flowers, are the honeysuckle (Lonicera Periclymenum) and the butterfly orchis (Habenaria bifolia). It would appear that insects have the power of perceiving even faint perfumes at considerable distances. Their organ of smell is situated in the antennae, which in many species are very large, long, and tufted or fringed. In all probability the sense of smell is considerably more developed in many insects than in man. (3.) Food.--The insects in their visits to the various kinds of flowers having always the obtaining of food as their main object; it is necessary for such flowers as would enjoy frequent and continued visits to keep an abundant store for the benefit of their guests. In the eyes of the more intelligent species of insects, colour and fragrance are but slight attractions compared with a plentiful supply of honey, and can only win for flowers possessing them the most occasional visits. That with insects utilitarian considerations preponderate over aesthetic ones, we have abundant evidence, for example, in the case of bees and butterflies. Thus, when a number of conspicuous flowers, some containing, some destitute of honey, stand side by side, the bees will be observed at first to enter either indiscriminately, but, becoming aware by experience of the fruitlessness of their toil, they at length entirely confine their visits to those in which they have found the food they are in quest of. The foods obtained by insects from flowers are...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130621273
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 120
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130621278
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr

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