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My Studio Neighbors
·
W. Hamilton Gibson
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Not
unfrequently
the
mechanism
so
well
adapted
exceeds
its
functions
and
proves
a
veritable
trap,
as
indicated
in
my
specimens.
I
have
found
three
dead
bees
thus
entrapped
in
a
single
umbel
of
blossoms,
having
been
exhausted
in
their
struggles
for
escape;
and
a
search
among
the
flowers
at
any
time
will
show
the
frequency
of
this
fatality,
the
victims
including
gnats,
flies,
crane-flies,
bugs,
wasps,
beetles,
and
small
butterflies.
In
every
instance
this
prisoner
is
found
dangling
by
one
or
more
legs,
with
the
feet
firmly
held
in
the
grip
of
the
fissure.
Almost
any
bee
which
we
may
catch
at
random
upon
a
milkweed
gives
perfect
evidence
of
his
surroundings,
its
toes
being
decorated
with
the
tiny
yellow
tags,
each
successive
flower
giving
and
taking,
exchanging
compliments,
as
it
were,
with
his
fellows.
Ordinarily
this
fringe
can
hardly
prove
more
than
an
embarrassment;
but
we
may
frequently
discern
an
individual
here
and
there
which
for
some
reason
has
received
more
than
his
share
of
the
milkweed's
compliments.
His
legs
are
conspicuously
fringed
with
the
yellow
tags.
He
rests
with
a
discouraged
air
upon
a
neighboring
leaf,
while
honey,
and
even
wings,
are
seemingly
forgotten
in
his
efforts
to
scrape
off
the
cumbersome
handicap.
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