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REFERRING to a question raised in NATURE of May 20 (P. 345), the writer of the article “Recent Studies on Animal and Plant Life” may accept it as a fact that the primrose flowers are visited both by humble-bees and by moths, among which may be particularly named the humming-bird and bee hawk-moths. The flowers are also frequented by dipterous insects, a specimen of one of which is enclosed, by which, for the long-styled form at least, pollination may perhaps be sometimes effected.
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HART, W. The Pollination of the Primrose. Nature 80, 457 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080457b0
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