RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1861.05.20. Watched on 2 successive days Myosotis sylvatica. CUL-DAR46.2.C37. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR46.2 contains Notes for Natural selection.
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May 20 /61/ Watched on 2 successive days Myosotis sylvatica with its small but pretty flowers— saw some pollen feeding flies haunting it & many of Empis chioptera, a very delicate fly visiting it long proboscis. Every flower wd be many times visited. These flies 4 which I killed were all dusted with pollen of this myosotis.
Saw several flies, visiting Veronica chamædys & Sucking it. These were dusted with pollen.— Certainly Bees do not visit these flowers
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