[C9]

(S 7)

Maer June 41.  One is tempted to think that bees created for fructification of plants, yet we see they take advantage of sweet juices between flower stalks of beans & clover as ants do (6) secretion of aphis, with no profit except to bees themselves in either case If nectar & the bending upwards of stamens & pistils have relation to fructification by insects, then the bee that cut hole at base of corolla may in one sense be considered to have cheated its final cause (though really it did carry pollen) I believe the bees which go after nectar are more efficient than those that go after pollen (?) at least I have seen a bee collecting pollen of yellow day lily, on wing with 2 front legs without touching stigma.

[C9v]

My theory considers that parent form of bees occasionally took advantage of some secretion in a flower, without any relation to its fructification, more than at present in beans & clover, but the bee thus facilitating the flower, the tempting cause was increased by natural selection. The insects became adapted solely for this end & thus plants & insects both became multiplied, both profiting by each other. To give an ex. If Rhod. azaloides received any great advantage by the bee biting hole in its corolla it wd be multiplied & by transportal into difft countries, the parent form of other species, so wd the bees which had this property become multiplied & any variation in its mind or body which tended to this end be increased & it likewise, became parent of species, till we had a mass of plants & mass of insects became mutually related to each other.