Section of a Butterfly's Trunk, after Reaumur

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The trunk is “directed downward and plunged into the flower. The insect draws it partly out, and perhaps curves it a little, and then plunges it into the flower again. It repeats the same maneuver seven or eight times, and then flies onto another flower.”

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insects, bugs life stages, butterflies moths lepidoptera

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Source

Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)

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