Das Weibchen dieser Art legt bekanntlich seine Eier in die Blüthe und öffnet dabei das Schiffchen; an den Tarsen eines Exemplares, welches in einer Blüthe gefangen wurde, konnten unter der Loupe deutlich einige Pollenzellen bemerkt werden.
The female of this species, as we know, lays her eggs in the flower and in so doing, opens the keel; on the tarsi of a specimen which was caught in a flower, some pollen cells could be observed clearly under a magnifying glass.
as we know = bekanntlich See p. 29, s. 7. Mendel’s 1854 report on Bruchus pisorum was communicated by one “Direct. V. Kollar”, who mentions in his comments that the damaging effects of this species were already known to eighteenth-century naturalists like Charles de Geer (1720–1778); see Verhandlungen des zoologisch-botanischen Vereins in Wien 4 (1854), p. 29.
keel = Schiffchen See p. 6, s. 2