 Dr. Wallace, who has had such immense experience in breeding Bombyx cynthia, is convinced that the females evince no choice or preference. He has kept above 300 of these moths living...  Tropical Nature, and Other Essays - Page 201by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 356 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1871 - 608 lehte
...— vol. ip 400. As to the Bombycidae he adds : — ' The females lie in an almost torpid state, and appear not to evince the least choice in regard to their partners. This is the case with the common silk-moth (B. mori). Dr. Wallace, who has Lad such immense experience... | |
 | 1871 - 808 lehte
...— vol. ip 400. As to the Bombycidas he adds : — " The females lie in an almost torpid state, and appear not to evince the least choice in regard to their partners. This is the case with the common silk-moth (B. mori). Dr. Wallace, who has had such immense experience... | |
 | 1871 - 860 lehte
...— vol. ip 400. As to the Bombycidae he adds : — " The females lie in an almost torpid slate, and appear not to evince the least choice in regard to their partners. This is the case with the common silk-moth (B. mart). Dr. Wallace, who has had such immense experience... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 lehte
...mouths. The females, as several entomologists have remarked to me, lie in an almost torpid state, and appear not to evince the least choice in regard to their partners. This is the case with the common silk-moth (J5. mori), as I have been told by some Continental and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 468 lehte
...mouths. The females, as several entomologists have remarked to me, lie in an almost torpid state, and appear not to evince the least choice . in regard to their partners. This is the case with the common silk-moth (B. mori), as I have been told by some continental and English... | |
 | 1871 - 650 lehte
...— vol. ip 400. As to the Bombycidie he adds : — ' The females lie in an almost torpid state, and appear not to evince the least choice in regard to their partners. This is the case with the common silk-moth (B. mori). Dr. Wallace, who has had such immense experience... | |
 | 1871 - 612 lehte
...— vol. ip 400. As to the Bombycidae he adds : — ' The females lie in an almost torpid state, and appear not to evince the least choice in regard to their partners. This is the case with the common silk-moth (I?, mori). Dr. Wallace, who has had such immense experience... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1876 - 488 lehte
...female. He tells us:— As to the Bombycido) he adds :— " The females lie in a torpid state, and appear not to evince the least choice in regard to their partners. This is the case with the common silk-moth (.B. morf). Dr. Wallace, who has had such immense experience... | |
 | 1877 - 528 lehte
...rivalry, and many may be seen pursuing or crowding round the same female ; " while in the case of ths silk-moths, " the females appear not to evince the...persevering, wins her. How can there be chance in this Î Natural selection would here act, as in birds, in perpetuating the strongest and most vigorous males,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1878 - 606 lehte
...in pursuit of a female, who submits herself with indifference to the victor. Mr. Darwin admits that in the case of the silk-moths " the females appear...evince the least choice in regard to their partners." Would not the same rule be found to hold good with any other Lepidopterous insect, if only observed... | |
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