. Farm friends and farm foes : a text-book of agricultural science . Agricultural pests; Beneficial insects; Insect pests. I9S FARM FRIENDS AND FARM FOES organs, while upon other plants you will find that the blossoms have an abundance of pistils, but very few sta- mens. If you think of this condition for a moment, you will easily see that in the case of the latter, pollen must be brought from those flowers haying many stamens, if the little ovules are to be fertilized and the seeds to de- velop. If you watch a strawberry bedf or a few moments THE INSECT POLLENIZED StoininiKe STRAWBERRY nslill
. Farm friends and farm foes : a text-book of agricultural science . Agricultural pests; Beneficial insects; Insect pests. I9S FARM FRIENDS AND FARM FOES organs, while upon other plants you will find that the blossoms have an abundance of pistils, but very few sta- mens. If you think of this condition for a moment, you will easily see that in the case of the latter, pollen must be brought from those flowers haying many stamens, if the little ovules are to be fertilized and the seeds to de- velop. If you watch a strawberry bedf or a few moments THE INSECT POLLENIZED StoininiKe STRAWBERRY nslillale n 7 AM, MAY12 10 AM MAY 12. some bright day in May, you will have no trouble seeing how this pollen is transferred from one blossom to the other, for you are very likely to find a great many insects attracted by the white petals of the strawberry blossoms, gathering, perhaps nec- tar, perhaps pollen, per- haps both. Most of these insects will be small bees, possibly the common honeybees, in case there are hives of these near at hand. Should you follow a single bee as she goes from flower to flower, you would prob- ably find that she often passes from a pollen- bearing blossom to a pistil-bearing blossom, and after she has thus visited such a flower. A DAY'S CHANGES IN A. 3RM. MAY 12 PEAR BLOSSOM 7 MAY 13 if you would look through a lens at the stigmas, you would. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947. Boston ; New York : D. C. Heath & Co.
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