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IN opening a joint discussion on "The Inter-relations of Plants and Insects: the Place of Both in the Eco-system" between the British Ecological Society and the Royal Entomological Society of London held on November 12, Prof. E. J. Salisbury claimed that though the insect – flower relations have been extensively studied, the quantitative aspects of insect-pollination have been little explored though economically important, while the competition aspect has been largely ignored. The elaborate and familiar relation between the yucca moth Pronuba and Yucca filamentosa, in which the reproduction of each is dependent on the other, but the larvæ take a high percentage of potential ovule production, serves to illustrate how narrow may be the margin between benefit and disadvantage in the relations between insects and plants.
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Inter-Relations of Plants and Insects. Nature 153, 424–426 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153424a0
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