. The story of hedgerow and pond . Hedgerow Life so that there are always enough tosupply all the birds and leave a tewover. All the things in this world, yousee—living things and plants and vege-tables—are bound up together; theycant do without one another. Some of the contrivances used byinsects in their different stages are mostcurious. The hedges are full of insectsnearly all the year round ; but if youwere to go out and look for them youwouldnt find many until you had learnedjust where to look, and when to look,and, above all, what to look for. Forthey hide away in every possible
. The story of hedgerow and pond . Hedgerow Life so that there are always enough tosupply all the birds and leave a tewover. All the things in this world, yousee—living things and plants and vege-tables—are bound up together; theycant do without one another. Some of the contrivances used byinsects in their different stages are mostcurious. The hedges are full of insectsnearly all the year round ; but if youwere to go out and look for them youwouldnt find many until you had learnedjust where to look, and when to look,and, above all, what to look for. Forthey hide away in every possible only feed at night, when they thinkthey are safe, and during the daytimeburrow underground. There are manycaterpillars in our English hedges whichall ihe time they are in the caterpillar D 33. Hedgerow Life state pretend they are not caterpillars atall, but something quite different. Andthey pretend so cleverly that you wouldnever know what they really were,unless you were shown. For some areshaped just like a bit of dead stick, andare brown in colour, and have knobsand lumps just like the knobs on a stickout of the hedge. It would not beof much use for them to look so like astick as they do if they were movingabout feeding, because the movementwould tell the birds they were onlyshams; so they feed at night, andduring the hours of daylight hold them-selves out stiff and straight by a pair ofclasping legs right at the end of theirbody ; so that they look exactly like abit of the hedge, instead of a fat, juicycaterpillar. When you first saw one,34 Hedgerow Life you would have to touch it before youcould believe it was really a the resemblance, to be of any use,has to be very perfect indeed. A birdseyes are much sharper than ours. It islooking for its dinner ;
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