. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. I'HOIKi'I'lVK l>i:VI( i:s IN l!.\{( IIIA. m Take first flic ffr^j-Htajrc Knci'v one wlio lias att('in|)t('<l fii rear Imttci'- Hit's kiinws what imiiicnsc (Icstnictinii tails to the Iiit id' any sjiccifs at tliis Ktajfo ot' life. Ants ami spiders look mi tlicni as (Iclicacics niadc tor tlu'ir (li'lcctation, and tlicrc is a whole ;ridii[i of tiny Hynien(i|)tera, almost too small to lireatlie. one vvould think, iiicri! spe
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. I'HOIKi'I'lVK l>i:VI( i:s IN l!.\{( IIIA. m Take first flic ffr^j-Htajrc Knci'v one wlio lias att('in|)t('<l fii rear Imttci'- Hit's kiinws what imiiicnsc (Icstnictinii tails to the Iiit id' any sjiccifs at tliis Ktajfo ot' life. Ants ami spiders look mi tlicni as (Iclicacics niadc tor tlu'ir (li'lcctation, and tlicrc is a whole ;ridii[i of tiny Hynien(i|)tera, almost too small to lireatlie. one vvould think, iiicri! specks, which livt' solely upon insects' ejr;.fs, piereini^ them witii their eirjf-darts, their proireny liviiiff imprisoned and l'eediii<r on the until they liaxc run the cycle of tlieir cliaiif^es. Some attack whole liatelies of e^ifs, laying'' one t' as it were iiiiprndent. Theii it must he remenilicred first that,—to jiidffc from the latest researches—these parasitic flies must ho, guided less liy vision tliaii hy touch : and sccoikI. that most insect eggs are laid on the hroader ^)arts of the leaf on which tlii' young will feed ; it is here that the parasite will range in quest of |ircy ; Itut the eggs of I'asilarcliia are rarely fi)un(l except at the extreme tips of leaves, and in addition the leaves of the food-plaiils coneerne(l art- all acuminate, some to an excessive uxtt.'tit, as in some of the |)oplars and hirehes. When the parasite has, however, found an v^ix, it may \\('ll he incpiired whether slie would not l)e deceived liy it. It differs from the eggs of all our other Initterriies, in that it is hesprinklcd with little fiexilile filaments, for all tlic world like the hairs of some leaves. ()r if the clothing of the eggs did not deceive, she might even then find it difficult of attack, for miiinte as these ])ariisites are. less than half a millimetre long, their hodies would extend across at least three of the polygonal cells which regularly stud
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