Scientist Phil DeVries is on a quest to find a moth that Darwin predicted more than 150 years ago.
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this has alot of helpful information and gives answers to the insect that can eat the nector from the orkid.
thanks for the helpful information on this video i apperciate it.
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this is such a tease! so what does phil find? there can’t really be a moth like that can there?
Great stuff. I plan on using it for a poetry lesson on the concept of metaphor. In a sense Darwin saw the orchid as a “metaphor” that postulated the existence of the moth.
[...] uncurls to reach the nectar in the orchid’s nectare. In the process of feeding from the orchid, the moth serves as its pollinator. The moth was given the scientific name Xanthopan morganii praedicta, in honor of Darwin’s [...]
WOW a moth where i live could not get that
nectar. it’s just so cool
The orchid in question is Angraecum sesquipedale (the species name in Latin means “one and a half feet” referring to the length of the nectary) and the moth now known to visit it is the Morgan’s Sphinx, Xanthopan morganii, with a proboscis of about 9 inches