From:
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 174: 2
Summary:
CD’s letter inviting him to visit did not reach him till he returned home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
CD’s letter inviting him to visit did not reach him till he returned home.
This autumn several observers have noted Plusia moths caught in the flowers of Physianthus albens. Also bees attack and devour the trapped moths.
Has never heard of bees that are carnivorous; hopes someone will investigate ASP’s observations.