. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . ook a firm hold on the bark with their legs. Theclaws being large and sharp, there is nd danger of a while the body of the insect within the pupa case under-went expansive movements forward, in such a way as to causethe skin to burst along the back, over the head and thorax,in a longitudinal direction. Then, very slowly, the exposedback of the greenish adult pushed its way through the opening,spr
. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . ook a firm hold on the bark with their legs. Theclaws being large and sharp, there is nd danger of a while the body of the insect within the pupa case under-went expansive movements forward, in such a way as to causethe skin to burst along the back, over the head and thorax,in a longitudinal direction. Then, very slowly, the exposedback of the greenish adult pushed its way through the opening,spreading the sides apart, until the pale, blue-green wings,body, and finally the legs were almost withdrawn. The posi-tion of the newlv escaping insect is now quite peculiar, theinsect often leaning out at a strong angle from the pupa , the insect works its body loose by grabbing hold ofthe bark and slowly crawling above a little distance away,leaving the case behind. In one or two hours the wings becomesufficiently dried and hardened, so that fiight is undertaken insafety. I have shown in the plate photographic illustrationthis insect in one of the positions A WiLn Rose with Rose-Buos(Macrodacli/his ) Thix iiixrcl Iiiix In-comc a c(i)ii)iioii pexl on ciillivalcd raxcx, grapes, mid Jriiil Irirx, ax nutcd in the tedt. The hody ix deiixr/j/ elolhfd icilli minute sciile-lila htiirx. From II photograph ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, WITH EXAMPLES 219
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