This one is for you science buffs. Remember that Darwin discovered an orchid in Africa (an Angraecum) with a long nectary. He had predicted, based on this nectary that there existed a moth that had evolved a similarly long proboscis to reach down into that lengthy nectary for food.
This moth (in Carry le Rouet) was buzzing around like a hummingbird, hovering from flower to flower. In the picture, you can see that it had a long, coiled proboscis that it would unwind to sip nectar from the bouganvilliae flowers. In similar fashion, there is probably a flower in the south of France that has a similarly long nectary that this moth regularly feeds on for which it evolved the long proboscis.
No comments:
Post a Comment