. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. CHRYSALroES OF THE PEIVBT dug np from the soil in gardens. ascends a branch so as toget clear of the vegetation ;selecting a suitable placewhere its wet wings havefree access to the air, it restswhile these gradually dryand become expanded andrigid. Up to the presentthe wings of the moth haveassmned the resting form ofthe butterfly—with theirupper surfaces closed together—but now that they have acquired strength, and underthe muscular control of the moth, the insect seeks the highest point of the branch,and a
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. CHRYSALroES OF THE PEIVBT dug np from the soil in gardens. ascends a branch so as toget clear of the vegetation ;selecting a suitable placewhere its wet wings havefree access to the air, it restswhile these gradually dryand become expanded andrigid. Up to the presentthe wings of the moth haveassmned the resting form ofthe butterfly—with theirupper surfaces closed together—but now that they have acquired strength, and underthe muscular control of the moth, the insect seeks the highest point of the branch,and after another short period of rest we observe a sudden flap of the wings and in an Full-grown caterpillars of the Privet Hawk-Moth feeding 144 Animal Life.
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