VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-04
“huge moth with a wonderfully long proboscis,”
Charles Darwin · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-04
Darwin wrote in 1862 that a Madagascar orchid could only be pollinated by a huge moth with a long proboscis.
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