TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pattison,Darcy
AU  - Willis,Peter
TI  - Pollen: Darwin's 130 year prediction 
T2  - Moments in science
SN  - 9781629441191
AV  - Q180.55.D57 P38 2019
U1  - 500 PAT 
KW  - Darwin, Charles,
KW  - Wasserthal, Lutz Thilo
KW  - Pollination by insects
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Pollen
KW  - Pollinators
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Sphingidae
KW  - Plants
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - History
KW  - Discoveries in science
KW  - Picture books for children
KW  - Picture books
KW  - fast
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 007-010
N2  - How long does it take for science to find an answer to a problem? On January 25, 1862, naturalist Charles Darwin received a box of orchids. One flower, the Madagascar star orchid, fascinated him. It had an 11.5 inch nectary, the place where flowers make nectar, the sweet liquid that insects and birds eat. How, he wondered, did insects pollinate the orchid? After experiments, he made a prediction. There must be a giant moth with a 11.5 inch proboscis, a straw-like tongue. Darwin died without ever seeing the moth, which was catalogued by entomologists in in 1903. But still no one had actually observed the moth pollinating the orchid. In 1992, German entomologist Lutz Thilo Wasserthal, Ph.D. traveled to Madagascar. By then, the moths were rare. He managed to capture two moths and released them in a cage with the orchid. He captured the first photo of the hawk moth pollinating the flower, as Darwin had predicted 130 years before. This pollen science book includes backmatter information on the moth, the orchid, Charles Darwin, and Lutz Wasserthal. Also included is Wasserthal's original photo taken in 1992
ER  -