. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. Fig. 28.—The Cocoon of the Fig. 29.—The Cocoon Emperor Moth. of the Six-spotted Bdenet {Filipendidai). three weeks in the pupal state. Here it is the perfect insect that braves the winter, and not the chrysalis. There is a great variety in the means taken by the caterpillars of moths to protect themselves during their metamorphoses, but we shall have space for only a few illustrations. A clever cocoon is spun by the larva of the Emperor Moth (Pavonia). It is pear-shaped, and composed of a brownish sillv; and is so constr
. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. Fig. 28.—The Cocoon of the Fig. 29.—The Cocoon Emperor Moth. of the Six-spotted Bdenet {Filipendidai). three weeks in the pupal state. Here it is the perfect insect that braves the winter, and not the chrysalis. There is a great variety in the means taken by the caterpillars of moths to protect themselves during their metamorphoses, but we shall have space for only a few illustrations. A clever cocoon is spun by the larva of the Emperor Moth (Pavonia). It is pear-shaped, and composed of a brownish sillv; and is so constructed that the newly emerged moth can easily walk out of the small end without breaking a fibre, while the entiy of an insect enemy from without is impossible. This is managed as follows. A number of rather stifl" threads are made to project from the small end of the cocoon, and these converge as they pass outward so that the ends are all near. 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 resemble the original Furneaux, William S. London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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