From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[after 27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 172
Summary:
[Roland] Trimen of the Cape of Good Hope sends evidence that a moth [Achaea chamaeleon] is capable of perforating the skin of a peach with its delicate proboscis. Have any readers observed moths or butterflies sucking any fruit of which the skin was not previously broken?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
