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020 _a9781629441191
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050 4 _aQ180.55.D57
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082 _a500 PAT
100 1 _aPattison, Darcy,
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aPollen :
_bDarwin's 130 year prediction /
_cby Darcy Pattison ; illustrated by Peter Willis
246 3 0 _aDarwin's 130-year prediction
300 _a1 volume (unpaged) :
_bcolor illustrations ;
_c22 cm
490 1 _aMoments in science
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references
520 _aHow 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
521 1 _a007-010
600 1 0 _aDarwin, Charles,
_d1809-1882
_vJuvenile literature
600 1 0 _aWasserthal, Lutz Thilo
_vJuvenile literature
650 0 _aPollination by insects
_vJuvenile literature
650 0 _aPollen
_vJuvenile literature
650 0 _aPollinators
_xEvolution
_vJuvenile literature
650 0 _aSphingidae
_vJuvenile literature
650 0 _aPlants
_xEvolution
_vJuvenile literature
650 0 _aLife sciences
_xHistory
_vJuvenile literature
650 0 _aDiscoveries in science
_xHistory
_vJuvenile literature
655 0 _aHistory
655 0 _aPicture books for children
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655 7 _aHistory.
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655 7 _aJuvenile works.
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655 7 _aPicture books.
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700 1 _aWillis, Peter
_q(Peter N.),
_eillustrator
830 0 _aMoments in science
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