Archive image from page 27 of The butterfly vivarium; or, Insect. The butterfly vivarium; or, Insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium CUbiodiversity1122113 Year: 1858 ( CHAPTER II. DESCRIPTION OP THE STRUCTURE OP THE INSECT VIVARIUM AND OP THE INSECTS REPRESENTED 'WITHIN IT IN THE FRONTIS
Archive image from page 27 of The butterfly vivarium; or, Insect. The butterfly vivarium; or, Insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium CUbiodiversity1122113 Year: 1858 ( CHAPTER II. DESCRIPTION OP THE STRUCTURE OP THE INSECT VIVARIUM AND OP THE INSECTS REPRESENTED 'WITHIN IT IN THE FRONTISPIECE. 'EFOllE proceeding to describe the form and structure of the ' insect home,' as an ornamental drawing- room object, I will say a few words on the more ordinary contrivances long since resorted to by entomologists for the rearing of caterpillars and chrysalides; as that will at once prove to the reader the practicability of the plan about to be suggested. In these rude 'breeding cages,' as they are termed by entomologists, but which might more correctly be termed ' rearing cages,' many of the conditions have been already learnt and established by expe- rience, which I shall adopt in my somewhat more elaborate, and decidedly more ornamental, structure. By several of the primitive methods referred to, and, in some instances, without the seemingly requi-
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