Inter-relations of plants and insects

ABSTRACT IN opening a joint discussion on "The Inter-relations of Plants and Insects: the Place of Both in the Eco-system" between the British Ecological Society and the Royal

Entomological Society of London held on November 12, Prof. E. J. Salisbury claimed that though the insect – flower relations have been extensively studied, the quantitative aspects of

insect-pollination have been little explored though economically important, while the competition aspect has been largely ignored. The elaborate and familiar relation between the yucca moth

Pronuba and _Yucca filamentosa_, in which the reproduction of each is dependent on the other, but the larvæ take a high percentage of potential ovule production, serves to illustrate how

narrow may be the margin between benefit and disadvantage in the relations between insects and plants. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription

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ARTICLE Inter-Relations of Plants and Insects. _Nature_ 153, 424–426 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153424a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 08 April 1944 * DOI:

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