. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. flittini, gfarden, flowers. HE White Cabbag-e Butterflies can be seen almost any fine day in summer about the cabbages in the and among- the wayside Although harmless, they are not liked by farmers and garden- ers, because they are the parents of the common green " worms" which do much harm to cabbages by eating holes in their leaves. It seems strange that a green, crawling cabbage worm should grow into a dainty, white-winged butterfly ; and it is the object of this story to tell, in a simple way, the strange life of this insect. It must be remem-
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. flittini, gfarden, flowers. HE White Cabbag-e Butterflies can be seen almost any fine day in summer about the cabbages in the and among- the wayside Although harmless, they are not liked by farmers and garden- ers, because they are the parents of the common green " worms" which do much harm to cabbages by eating holes in their leaves. It seems strange that a green, crawling cabbage worm should grow into a dainty, white-winged butterfly ; and it is the object of this story to tell, in a simple way, the strange life of this insect. It must be remem- bered, however, that the life stories of all insects are not alike. Some insects spend their whole life above ground; some partly below ground and partly aoove ; some partly in the water and partly while others suck up their food as a liquid; some spend part of their life as a crawling caterpillar, while others have no such stage. So varied are the habits of insects that a noted writer once said : — " Insects walk, run, and jump with the quadrupeds, fly with ground ; almost altogether in water ; some in the air ; some eat their food the birds, pents, and. Fig-. 4-—The bov and the insect. glide with the ser- swim with the ; It would be inter- esting work to find examples of many of the insects to which this writer referred, and to study their habits ; but this story must deal with the White Cabbage Butterfly. The ancient Egyptians had a strange custom of em- balming their dead, and wrapping them in linen bandages. These mummies, as they are called, were placed in curious- ly wrought cases, and stored carefully away in secret tombs or pits, in the belief that after a time life would return to them. Now we have creatures which nature changes into Living 7nummies for five or six months in the year ; and living mummies ought to be more interesting than dead Fig. 43—Egyptian ones. These may be seen at any time during the winter if a little search be made for them
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