RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1873.06.05. After very cold spring Saw large B. muscorum sucking many flowers. CUL-DAR77.62a. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2023. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 76-79 contain material for Darwin's book Cross and self fertilisation (1876).
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May Jun 5 /73/ After very cold day Saw large B. muscorum sucking many flowers of common Pea — & in doing so depress wing-petals —
It could have failed to carry pollen from flower to flower.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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