Yucca Moth

Description :

Description: English: The Yucca Moth, emerging from her cocoon, flies at night to a Yucca flower and collects pollen from the stamens, holding a little ball of it in her mouth-parts. She then visits another flower and lays an egg in the seed-box. After this she applies the pollen to the tip of the pistil, thus securing the fertilisation of the flower and the growth of the ovules in the pod. Yucca flowers in Britain do not produce seeds because there are no Yucca Moths. Date: 1922. Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20417/20417-h/20417-h.htm. Author: J. Arthur Thomson.