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Newspaper Article
Wallace's Sphinx Moth: The Long-Tongued Insect Predicted by Darwin
2023
Overview
\"[Charles] Darwin predicted that the orchid would be pollinated by a long-tongued moth, when naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace described the orchid in 1867, he said some of the larger species from the the Sphingidae family of moths (known as sphinx moths or hawk moths) had proboscises almost as long as the nectary of Angraecum sesquipedale. The two naturalists were proved right when such a long-tongued moth was found in Madagascar...More recently, the moth was determined to have the longest insect tongue.\" (Live Science) Learn more about Wallace's sphinx moth.
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Future Publishing Ltd
