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May 1. 1863. Orchis morio Hartfield

George caught 2 specimen of (& a 3d seen) Bombus sucking with pair of pollinia attached close above mandible on a bare place where ther is no hair caught a long-horned Bee sucking - saw a 3d species - I saw a red & yellow Fly sucking, I think with pollinia on head.

Long-horned 11 Pollen-masses (2 more at work)

Hive-Bee 10 pollen-mass (2nd spec. with 2. pollen)

(I looked whilst Bees visiting inside the nectary carefully - taking flowers with pollinia removed; & not vestige of nectar - Brown spot on one specn as in O. maculata formerly.

In all these specimens a pair of pollinia removed; as formerly so many single removed, I still believe in most places Diptera do work

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O. morio

May 2d saw a Rhingya sucking - no pollen-masses.

do Hive Bee with 16 pollen-masses; many withot any pollen-grains & peduncles pushed backwards

May 3d saw Long horned Bee remove a pair of pollinia. It sucked for long time, moving proboscis in same flower

saw another Hive-Bee removing pollinia did not seem to suck very long.

another kind of Bee like a minute Bombus muscorum in colour with 8 pollen-masses in same place

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Orchis mascula - George saw at Down a minute Bee probably Andraena sucking & quite crawled into nectary

Saw several Rhingias momentarily sucking O. mascula