. Grasses of North America [microform] : chapters on the physiology, composition, selection, improving and cultivation of grasses, management of grass lands, also chapters on clovers, injurious insects and fungi. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 888 COMMON YELLOW BUTTERFLY. one near tlie base, and another, sometimes incomplete, midway between tliis and the onter margin, near the apex, is a quite dark patcli. Dashes of dull brown are scattered along the wing. The moth expands nearly 3cm (1^ inches). The caterpillars will be seen feeding on the clover all the sum- mer long
. Grasses of North America [microform] : chapters on the physiology, composition, selection, improving and cultivation of grasses, management of grass lands, also chapters on clovers, injurious insects and fungi. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 888 COMMON YELLOW BUTTERFLY. one near tlie base, and another, sometimes incomplete, midway between tliis and the onter margin, near the apex, is a quite dark patcli. Dashes of dull brown are scattered along the wing. The moth expands nearly 3cm (1^ inches). The caterpillars will be seen feeding on the clover all the sum- mer long, and at the same time the moths may be started on their short journeys as wo walk over the clover fields. Colias philodice. foinnioii Yellow Butterfly, Order Lepidoptera, Fnmih/ PapUiotieda:. Saunders, Ont. En. Report, 18S1 p. 47, 111. French, 111. En. Report, Vol. VII., p. 147. Packard, Guide to Studj- of Insects, p. 250. What was said of the abundance of the Clover Drasteri i is even more ai)])licable to our yellow butterfly. Few insects are more common, more widely distributed, or better known than the sulphur-yellow butterfly which gladdens the pasture and roadside, and flecks the damp places along the roadways of all our Xorthern States. What was said of the food, habits, and destructivetiess of the Drasteria erechtea can also be said as truly of Colias philodice. Fig. 143 shows the male and female of this familiar butterfly. The eggs are long, tapering, ribbed, and though yellow at first change as the embryo de- velops, first to red and then to brown, just prior to hatching. The young larva is brown with a yellowish tinge. La- ter it changes to green. The green head has a yellowish- white stripe on each side, with a dash of red at the j^o 148 lower edge. The body is. Fio. 143. 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 res
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