. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Genus Anosia southward are arrested by the ocean. The writer has seen stunted trees on the New Jersey coast in the middle of October, when the foliage has already fallen, so completely covered with clinging masses of these butterflies as to present the appearance of trees in full leaf (Fig. 79).. Fig. 79.—Swarms of milkweed butterflies resting on a tree. Photographed at night by Professor C. F. Nachtrieb. (From " Insect Life," vol. v, p. 206, by special permission of the United Stat
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Genus Anosia southward are arrested by the ocean. The writer has seen stunted trees on the New Jersey coast in the middle of October, when the foliage has already fallen, so completely covered with clinging masses of these butterflies as to present the appearance of trees in full leaf (Fig. 79).. Fig. 79.—Swarms of milkweed butterflies resting on a tree. Photographed at night by Professor C. F. Nachtrieb. (From " Insect Life," vol. v, p. 206, by special permission of the United States Department of Agriculture.) This butterfly is a great migrant, and within quite recent years, with Yankee instinct, has crossed the Pacific, probably on mer- chant vessels, the chrysalids being possibly concealed in bales of hay, and has found lodgment in Australia, where it has greatly multiplied in the warmer parts of the Island Continent, and has thence spread northward and westward, until in its migrations it has reached Java and Sumatra, and long ago took possession of 83. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.
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