. The butterflies of Maine .... Butterflies -- Maine. 24 BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. Body, black, with a yellow stripe along each side. The larva feeds on the leaves of apple, plum, wild and cultivated cherry, thorn and bass wood. The eggs are deposited singly on the leaves, and are nearly globular, smooth, dark green when tirst laid, but soon changing to greenish yellow, and speckled with reddish brown. In a little less than two weeks, the eggs hatch and the young are about one-tenth of an inch long, cylindrical, largest towards the head, of a brownish color, mottled with black, and with a large wh
. The butterflies of Maine .... Butterflies -- Maine. 24 BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. Body, black, with a yellow stripe along each side. The larva feeds on the leaves of apple, plum, wild and cultivated cherry, thorn and bass wood. The eggs are deposited singly on the leaves, and are nearly globular, smooth, dark green when tirst laid, but soon changing to greenish yellow, and speckled with reddish brown. In a little less than two weeks, the eggs hatch and the young are about one-tenth of an inch long, cylindrical, largest towards the head, of a brownish color, mottled with black, and with a large whitish spot on the middle of the l)ack. The full grown larva is about one inch and a ^^j^^^^^^i^^—r- half long, of a deep green 3^^^^^.^^^.... -^--^^^^ii^j. color and paler beireath. Fig. 2. Larva of Pa^ilio turnus (nat. size). ^j^^ j^^.^^| -^ g^^^.^H^ ^^^^^^_ pared with the segments following, and of a reddish brown color. The front edge of the second segment, and also the hinder edge of the tifth, is yellow ; and the front edge of the sixth is velvety black. On the side of the fourth segment is a 3^ellow eye-spot with a black center. As the larva ap- proaches maturity, the green color grows dull, and gradually changes to a dark reddish brown mottled with grayish on the sides. The larva then seeks some place of shelter, where it spins a button of silk in which the hind feet are secured and a loop of silk to support the forward part of the body, and after a short time casts oft* its skin and discloses a dull brownish pupa, in which state it passes the winter, and emerges the following June. These insects have been quite abundant for a few years past, but their insect enemies and the birds hold them pretty well in check. As each female lays about 200 eggs, they would soon mul- tiply to such an alarming extent as to destroy the trees upon which they feed, were it not for these natural remedies. There is no doubt that spiders destroy the eggs and young larvae to a much greater ex
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