. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. Fig-. 4-—The bov and the insect. glide with the ser- swim with the ; It would be inter- esting work to find examples of many of the insects to which this writer referred, and to study their habits ; but this story must deal with the White Cabbage Butterfly. The ancient Egyptians had a strange custom of em- balming their dead, and wrapping them in linen bandages. These mummies, as they are called, were placed in curious- ly wrought cases, and stored carefully away in secret tombs or pits, in the belief that after a time life would return to them. No
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. Fig-. 4-—The bov and the insect. glide with the ser- swim with the ; It would be inter- esting work to find examples of many of the insects to which this writer referred, and to study their habits ; but this story must deal with the White Cabbage Butterfly. The ancient Egyptians had a strange custom of em- balming their dead, and wrapping them in linen bandages. These mummies, as they are called, were placed in curious- ly wrought cases, and stored carefully away in secret tombs or pits, in the belief that after a time life would return to them. Now we have creatures which nature changes into Living 7nummies for five or six months in the year ; and living mummies ought to be more interesting than dead Fig. 43—Egyptian ones. These may be seen at any time during the winter if a little search be made for them under fence-rails, under the eaves of outbuildings, and in other sheltered places. I mean the pupae, or resting forms, of insects. But the particular mum- mies to which I shall refer are the chrysalids (Fig. 44) of the White [37]. Mummy in its 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 Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture; Ontario Agricultural College. Toronto : Ontario Dept. of Agriculture
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