. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . gynnis cyhele; one of the cr€;scent-spot butterflies,Phyciodes tharos; one Ajax butterfly, a number of bees of thegenus Bombus; several small, clear-wing flies, and two smallbugs. On examination of their feet with a hand magnifier, the realpollen carriers were revealed at once. The wasps feet had anumber of the pollinia attached to the hairs at different partsof the tarsi, while the bees feet were fairly loaded
. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . gynnis cyhele; one of the cr€;scent-spot butterflies,Phyciodes tharos; one Ajax butterfly, a number of bees of thegenus Bombus; several small, clear-wing flies, and two smallbugs. On examination of their feet with a hand magnifier, the realpollen carriers were revealed at once. The wasps feet had anumber of the pollinia attached to the hairs at different partsof the tarsi, while the bees feet were fairly loaded with as to the rest of the insects enumerated, I found theirfeet entirely free from polliniae, they haviijg escaped the polliniatraps set only for the larger forms that I have mentioned. When finding the butterfly weed on some bright day, letthe reader stop and meditate, and study the insect visitors,before thinking of recklessly picking these exquisite flowersthat adorn the outdoor landscape. Then let me hear fromthose who have made new additions to the list of these flowerfrequenters, which I have only suggested in my sketch. 42 NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA. BiED Flowers OW many times in)assing througlithe low, wetmeadows in Mayand June, havewe stopped toview Ihe beautiful, paintedcup flowers! J5ut few of ushave pondered o\er the si{^-nificance of their brilliant scar-let coloring. The flowers willbe recalled as having the corollasomewhat hidden by the long, two-i i , lobed calyx, which is the part tipped : with brilliant color. Then, too, the green i leaves are variously stained in the same ^■el■milion or scarlet, or, they may rarely be coloredyellow. One day I was foitiniate in coming on Lhe scene atthe proper moment, to view the pretty little ruby-throatedhumming-bird, thirsting after his loTig flight, dart down tosi]> the nectar from some of these blossoms. Only a shorttime previously I had seen him poised in mid-air before theblossoms of the co
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