. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . ^^ The Moth Acontia crastriodes and bird excrement irhicJi itresembles. From nature just as the ol>jects were found. Canada and the United States. The species are marked invarious ways on their forewings, so that all of them are pro-tected in the way mentioned. The significance and extent ^ Or Tiimrhe o^ some authors. PROTECTIVE RESEMBLANCE, WITH EXAMPLES 97 of this means of protection have heretofore been b
. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . ^^ The Moth Acontia crastriodes and bird excrement irhicJi itresembles. From nature just as the ol>jects were found. Canada and the United States. The species are marked invarious ways on their forewings, so that all of them are pro-tected in the way mentioned. The significance and extent ^ Or Tiimrhe o^ some authors. PROTECTIVE RESEMBLANCE, WITH EXAMPLES 97 of this means of protection have heretofore been but httlestudied in our North American species of moths. Another view appears in the illustration below of a moth,Stenoma schlaegeri, which I found in the woods.^ The circum-stances under which this moth was found show how persistentlycertain sluggish behavior is associated with color markingsand form. When I came through the woods, this moth was. The Moth Stenoma schlaegeri on the upper surface of a straw-berry leaf. Its resemblance to bird excrement is strilcing. found resting on the upper surface of a leaf of wood straw-berry. The wind was blowing quite strongly at the time,which caused the leaf on which the moth was resting to swayback and forth, yet the moth held fast to its position. In the sketch of the Animated Rolled Leaf will be foundobservations on similar habits of Datattia moths, of openlyexposing themselves on the surfaces of leaves. The resemblanceof this moth to bird excrement was so close that when firstnoticed I almost decided to pass it by. The peculiar habitof drawing and rounding its wings close to the sides of the At MUl Creek, Uliuois, May 30, 1903. 98 NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERiTTE AMERICA body give to the insect an elongated, roi^nded form which isvery characteristic. The protective resemblance of these hioths in the mannershown might be ascribed by some to mere coincidence. Butwhen one studies the subje
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