Peter Moore | Dec 10, 1989 | 3 min read
PLANT AND ANIMAL SCIENCES BY PETER D. MOORE Department of Biology King's College London, U.K. The cycads are an unusual group of gymnosperms in that they are pollinated by insects rather than by wind. In a study of the Mexican cycad, Zamia furfuracea, pollination was found to be dependent on a single insect species, the host-specific snout weevil, which completes its entire life cycle within the cones of this plant. Hatching, feeding, mating, and oviposition all take place within the male co