insect-form

Updated: August 9, 2026

In these and in other examples unnumbered, culminating in the marvellous orchids and their ministers, there has come about the closest adaptation of flower-shape to insect-form, the one now clearly the counterpart of the other. We must not forget that the hospitality of a flower is after all the hospitality of an inn-keeper who earns and requires payment.

- Little Masterpieces of Science:: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer