. The butterfly book : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Genus Basilarchia The caterpillars feed upon the leaves of various species of oak, birch, willow, and linden. The eggs are laid upon the extreme tip of the leaves, and the infant caterpillar, feeding upon the leaf in immediate proximity to the point where it has been hatched, attaches bits of bitten leaf by strands of silk to the midrib, thus stiffening its perch and ^;;^'"^^^^^^v|:^—^ preventing its curling as the rib dries. Out ^-^---^ of bits of leaves thus detached it constructs
. The butterfly book : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Genus Basilarchia The caterpillars feed upon the leaves of various species of oak, birch, willow, and linden. The eggs are laid upon the extreme tip of the leaves, and the infant caterpillar, feeding upon the leaf in immediate proximity to the point where it has been hatched, attaches bits of bitten leaf by strands of silk to the midrib, thus stiffening its perch and ^;;^'"^^^^^^v|:^—^ preventing its curling as the rib dries. Out ^-^---^ of bits of leaves thus detached it constructs a p,Q 107. —Leaf cut packet of material, which it moves forward away at end by cater- , ^, -1 ^-1 u w J i pilhr of Basilarchui (Ri- along the midrib until it has completed its fgy) second moult. By this time winter begins to come on, and it cuts away for itself the material of the leaf on either side of the rib, from the tip toward the base, glues the rib of the leaf to the stem by means of silk, draws together the edges of the remaining portions of the leaf, and constructs a tube-like hiber- naculum, or winter quarters, exactly fitting the body, in which it passes the Fig. 108.—Hibernaculum, or winter. winter quarters, of larva of Ba- There are a number of species of the siiaichia. genus found in the United States, the habits of which have been carefully studied, and they are among our most interesting butterflies, several species being mimics of protected species. (i) Basilarchia astyanax, Fabricius, Plate XXII, Fig. \, ^ ; Plate 111, Figs. 17, 21, 25, larva; Plate IV, Figs. 12, 13, chrysalis (The Red-spotted Purple). Butterfly.—This common but most beautiful species is suffi- ciently characterized by the plate so far as the upper surface is concerned. On the under side the wings are brownish, banded with black on the margins; the lunules are on this side as above, but the inner band of spots is red. There are two red spots at the base of the fore wings, and four at t
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