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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. 1841.06. Saw humble on Rhod. Azaloides. CUL-DAR205.11.53. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1

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Maer June 1841. Saw humble on Rhod. Azaloides. Instead of entering tube heard noise of cutting in base of tubular corolla hole with wonderful celerity crawling from base to base & so sucked honey. Now as Azalea is foreign to Staffordshire, is this intellect or instinct applied from some analogous flower. In fraxinella humbles alight on the closely united filaments & pass proboscis between them for nectar. Elizabeth saw another next day which cut only one hole & entered tube of flower of all others wh he visited.

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