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The moth visitor has brought its hostess the pollen 
from another blossom, and has powdered the pistil’s 
four spreading tips, so that the little primrose seeds 
below get the needed touch of life, and the short life 
of the flower has not been in vain. 
If you keep on the lookout, you are likely to come 
across one of these yellow flowers with the sleepy pink 
moth inside its cup. I have caught this little fellow 
napping so often, that I have wondered if the nectar of 
the evening primrose might not have the effect of a 
sleeping potion. But after all, I suppose that pretty 
pink moths, like boys and girls, are likely to be dull 
and sleepy in the daytime if they have been up too late 
the night before. 
HORRID HABITS 
ID you ever know that some plants manage to 
attract insects in ways that are quite disgusting 
to us human beings? 
While spending a morning in the woods, some of you 
may have noticed an odor so unpleasant that you were 
driven to find another resting place. 
Perhaps you thought that this unpleasant smell was 
caused by the decaying body of some dead animal; but 
had you known the truth, you would have laid the 
blame where it rightly belonged. 
And where was that, do you think? 
Why, to that beautiful climbing plant close by, with 
large, thick leaves; .and clusters of pale, greenish 
