Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . THE ANTIOPA OR MOURNING-CLOAKBUTTERFLY During sunny days in spring,one may often see a beau-tiful purple-black butterfly,having a cream-colouredborder along the outer mar-gin of its wings, flying lei-surely about, in the vicinityof woods and in the openfields. This insect is calledthe Antiopa or Mourning-cloak Butterfly; it is repre-in Figure 71. It has passed thecondition, having found shelter init was not directly exposed to the. sented natural sizewinter in this adultsome retreat wherestorm and stre
Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . THE ANTIOPA OR MOURNING-CLOAKBUTTERFLY During sunny days in spring,one may often see a beau-tiful purple-black butterfly,having a cream-colouredborder along the outer mar-gin of its wings, flying lei-surely about, in the vicinityof woods and in the openfields. This insect is calledthe Antiopa or Mourning-cloak Butterfly; it is repre-in Figure 71. It has passed thecondition, having found shelter init was not directly exposed to the. sented natural sizewinter in this adultsome retreat wherestorm and stress ofthe weather. When the leavesof the elm, willow,and poplar trees arenearly expanded,these butterflies de-posit their eggsupon the eggs are laidin clusters encirclinmore in each cluster
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