Volume 41, Number 2, June 1995:
The Yucca Plant and
the Yucca Moth

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Cover Photo: The most common yucca in the Midwest and eastern Great Plains is Yucca filamentosa, a cultivar limited to towns and graveyard plantings in these regions.

The Yucca Plant and the Yucca Moth
by Marylee Ramsay and John Richard Schrock

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the authors

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- mutualism
- coevolution
- a "transparent" system
- yucca moth pollination
- male and female yucca moths
- mark and recapture
- C.V. Riley
- the yucca plant
- yucca flowers
- yucca products
- yucca pods and larval moths
- bailing out of the pods
- old pods
- what we do not know
- what prevents a cheater?
- how did the yucca and yucca moth relationship evolve?
- solving problems
- for additional information

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