Half hours with insects . Willow leavcs rolled by a caterpillar; and section. (Fig. 50). An example of a less perfect roll, and one inter-mediate in perfection between the foregoing nests and thetent of the common garden Tortrix, is shown in the accom-panying figure (51) of a number of willow leaves rolled upby a caterpillar, wliile figure 52 gives a transverse sectionof the same compound roll with the outer threads bindingthe simple rolls into a bundle. Our garden leaf-roller can 31 64 HALF HOURS WITH INSECTS. [Packard. be best subdued by hand picking. It is easy to detect thetents, and a sim
Half hours with insects . Willow leavcs rolled by a caterpillar; and section. (Fig. 50). An example of a less perfect roll, and one inter-mediate in perfection between the foregoing nests and thetent of the common garden Tortrix, is shown in the accom-panying figure (51) of a number of willow leaves rolled upby a caterpillar, wliile figure 52 gives a transverse sectionof the same compound roll with the outer threads bindingthe simple rolls into a bundle. Our garden leaf-roller can 31 64 HALF HOURS WITH INSECTS. [Packard. be best subdued by hand picking. It is easy to detect thetents, and a simple matter to remove the worm arid crush itunder foot. The Leaf Cutter Bee. — The leaves of the rose bushes inthe garden are sometimes strangely cut into, as if some fairyhad overnight deftly cut them with her wanton scissors. To Fig. The Leaf Cutter Bee and nest. many this fact is a sore puzzle. It is due to a leaf-roller ofquite a different sort from any we have before figure (53 after Figuier) represents the Loaf Cutter Beecutting out a circular piece of leaf with her scissors-likejaws, while the nest, composed of numerous pieces variouslyfolded and pressed together, attests her wonderful skill andforethought. 82 Packard] DELATIONS OF INSECTS TO MAX. Go IN continuing these half-hour talks about insects, someremarks upon the more direct relations of these littlebeings to human interests may not be inappropriate. Wemay, from our moral and intellectual heights, look downupon the lower world of insects as did the gods and demi-gods of old frona Olympus upon their half-brothers andcousins-german on the plains below. For physically arewe not related to the insects? Remotely, it is true, butstill wc have perhaps branched off from a common stock,the starting point some monad. Our blood differs in qual-ity
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