From:
Henry Wenman Newman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 2 (1861–2): 76–7.
Summary:
Replies to CD’s query (see 3778): the queens or females of the humble bees are not fertilised in the air. Offers a number of observations relating to the fertilisation of bees and wasps, which he has made in the course of sixty years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project