Abstract
THE determination of the insects that pollinate the primrose is an old problem, and my remarks in the review under consideration were made with the view of eliciting more observations on this point. The hawk-moths mentioned by one correspondent are scarcely sufficiently common to serve as the usual pollinating agencies, and the dipterous insect (apparently a Volucella) arrived in too fragmentary a condition for identification. The Bombi certainly visit these flowers, but the vague “bee” used in the book under review would certainly lead to confusion with the true honey-bee, which is not known to visit primulas. I may add that in the Manchester Museum there is a series of insects taken by Prof. Weiss on the primrose. No moths are included amongst them.
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The Pollination of the Primrose. Nature 80, 457–458 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080457c0
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