Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . oilus Butterfly. Nature Biographies. photography. They are generally made of very minutesilken threads, the effect of which any line of pen orpencil fails to portray. But, under favourable conditions, perfect pictures mayeasily be obtained withthe camera. Numerousexamples of these maybe found in the picturesof the nests of theAmerican tent caterpil-lar and the cherry tent-maker in earlier pagesof this book, as well asin the accompanyingphotograph of the webof the fall web-worm. Inthe original photograp
Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . oilus Butterfly. Nature Biographies. photography. They are generally made of very minutesilken threads, the effect of which any line of pen orpencil fails to portray. But, under favourable conditions, perfect pictures mayeasily be obtained withthe camera. Numerousexamples of these maybe found in the picturesof the nests of theAmerican tent caterpil-lar and the cherry tent-maker in earlier pagesof this book, as well asin the accompanyingphotograph of the webof the fall web-worm. Inthe original photographsone can see distinctlythe different layers ofsilk of which the nestsare composed. All of these three last-mentioned insects arebuilders of communalhomes, but there arelaree numbers of cater-pillars that live singlyrather than in colonies,and these also often con-struct protections for themselves. The camera portrayssuch domiciles in a very satisfactory manner. For ex-ample, the larva of the beautiful Atalanta butterfly livesin nettle leaves, the edges of which it rolls up and binds 112. Fig. io6. — Web of Fall Web-worms uponan Apple Twig. ???? ??? ?? The Camera and the Entomologist.
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