The Honeysuckle 



how in a certain garden there was a Honeysuckle 

 plant which was regularly visited at dusk on summer 

 evenings by Convolvulus Hawk-moths. He noticed 

 that after they had sucked the honey they were 

 accustomed to settle near the plant on the bark of 

 old tree trunks, or on fallen leaves, and there remain 

 with folded wings as if benumbed until the next 

 evening. One day he picked up carefully one of 

 these pieces of wood with a moth on it, marked 

 the insect slightly with cinnabar, and carried it, 

 the moth never moving, to a distant part of the 

 garden three hundred yards away. When twilight 

 feU the hawk-moth began to wave the feelers, by 

 which it smells, hither and thither a few times, then 

 stretched its wings and flew like an arrow through 

 the garden towards the Honeysuckle. He followed, 

 and there was his cinnabar-marked moth hovering 

 over the flowers and sucking the honey. It must 

 have been able to smeU the Honeysuckle fragrance 

 even at that great distance, and had flown straight 

 to it directly the Honeysuckle made its fragrant 



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