Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . Say. S8 Studies of Walkings-sticks. one could not ask for: they would remain quiet and lookpleasant by the hour, so that time exposures could bemade to one s hearts content. They were happy w^ith onlya bit of birch twig for support, and it seemed a matterof entire indifferenceto them whether theyhung on with three legsor six, although they sel-dom utilized the latternumber. A commonposition of the male isshown in Figure 60:the insect rests headdownward, with thetwo front legs and theantennas closely ap
Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . Say. S8 Studies of Walkings-sticks. one could not ask for: they would remain quiet and lookpleasant by the hour, so that time exposures could bemade to one s hearts content. They were happy w^ith onlya bit of birch twig for support, and it seemed a matterof entire indifferenceto them whether theyhung on with three legsor six, although they sel-dom utilized the latternumber. A commonposition of the male isshown in Figure 60:the insect rests headdownward, with thetwo front legs and theantennas closely ap-pressed and projectingforward as a continua-tion of the body. Thetermination of the headis not easily distin-guished. Another po-sition in which thefront legs are not heldso closely together isshown in Figure body is parallelwith the twig, and thechief support is derived from the two hind and one ofthe middle legs. The body of the female walking-stick is considerablylarger than that of the male, but it attitudinizes in muchthe same way. A back view, in which it is clinging to 59. Fig. 59. — Walking-stick, Male, resting withHead Downward. Nature Biographies. the support with its four rear feet and one front one, isshown in Figure 6i. As will be seen, the other front legprojects forward beside the antennae: on account of thelarger body, the termination of the head is more plainlyvisible than in the male. Figure 62 shows a side view, ^ in which five of the legsseem to be utilized forsupport, and one heldout forward along withthe antenna, one ofwhich is curled downin an unusual one has watchedthese queer creaturesthus taking on attitudes,and holding them bythe hour, it is interestingto study their structureto see in what ways theyare adapted to their curi-ous existence. One ofthe most remarkablethings about them is the- entire absence of Head Another is the unusualdevelopment of the tho-a little observation through a lens shows distinctlythe three
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