. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . one, or, stoop-ing, look beneath them, we may surprise the tiny creat-ure feeding, and appearing like a drop of molten gold,clinging like dew to the leaf. But youmust be quick if you would capture him,for he is off in a spangling streak ofglitter. Nor is this golden sheen all vi^ the resource of the little insect ; .^^i-^ ■o ■r^^ 5^. A WINGED GEM lOI for in the space of a few seconds, as you hold him inyour hand, he has become a milky, iridescent opal, andnow mother-of-pearl, and finally crawls before you
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . one, or, stoop-ing, look beneath them, we may surprise the tiny creat-ure feeding, and appearing like a drop of molten gold,clinging like dew to the leaf. But youmust be quick if you would capture him,for he is off in a spangling streak ofglitter. Nor is this golden sheen all vi^ the resource of the little insect ; .^^i-^ ■o ■r^^ 5^. A WINGED GEM lOI for in the space of a few seconds, as you hold him inyour hand, he has become a milky, iridescent opal, andnow mother-of-pearl, and finally crawls before you ina coat of dull orange. A few of the beetles kept in a box and supplied withleaves, changing from gilt to mother-of-pearl or dullcoral, as the whim suits them, are an interesting study. Beneath the bind-weed leaves one may also findnumbers of small black larvae with a singular black lat-tice held suspended flat over their backs upon theirforked tails. These are the inconspicuous and uncouthgrubs from which our golden beetles have sprung, and alittle search among the leaves will also disclose numbersof the tiny chrysalids suspended by their tails. Dont let the summer pass without making the ac-quaintance of the Cassida. After the ist of July hemay be found until late autumn. You must see him athome if you would see him at all, for the dead insectloses all this wondrous lustre. The wild bind-weed isthe favorite ha
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