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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY. | 
Morus ENTRAPPED BY AN ASCLEPIAD PLANT (PaysIANTHUS) 
AND KILLED BY Honey Bees.—Towards the last of September, Mr. 
John Mooney, of Providence, an observing man, brought us a 
stalk of Phystanthus albens, an Asclepiad plant originating in 
Buenos Ayres, with the bodies of several moths (Plusia precationis) 
hanging dead by their proboscides or maxilla. It was found that 
the moths had, in endeavoring to reach the pollen pockets, been 
caught as if in a vise by one of the opposing edges of the five sets 
of hard horny contrivances covering the pollinia. A few days 
after, Mr. Everett A. Thompson, of Springfield, Mass., wrote us, 
that he had a plant of the same species which had caught a num- 
ber of moths of several species, and that in some cases only the 
heads and tongues of the moths were left, and he attributed this 
dismemberment to birds, but wrote in the same letter that his 
father had seen bees sting the moths while alive and struggling. 
e sent me one of the moths, which proved to be a Plusia preca- 
tionis, the same species as we had observed in Providence, and a 
honey bee (Afis mellifica) which had been seen by his father to 
attack the moths, and which had a pollen mass of the same plant 
attached to one of its fore legs. On writing Mr. Thompson that 
his father’s observations were quite new, the hive bee not being 
known to be carnivorous, beyond its well-known habit of stinging 
burn, Mass., a careful observer, kindly prepared the following 
statement: pias vers re 
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