. As nature shows them : moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains : with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. Lepidoptera; Nature prints. 349 If one desires to rear it in numbers, a female should be captured and induced to lay her on a bunch of the food plant, and when the young cater[)illars appear they should be fed with tender shoots and protected from the Papilio asterias. Female. There are two broods in one season, and the last, after hatching into larvte and turning to chry
. As nature shows them : moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains : with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. Lepidoptera; Nature prints. 349 If one desires to rear it in numbers, a female should be captured and induced to lay her on a bunch of the food plant, and when the young cater[)illars appear they should be fed with tender shoots and protected from the Papilio asterias. Female. There are two broods in one season, and the last, after hatching into larvte and turning to chrysalides, hibernate during tlie winter in this state. The male and female butterflies may readil}^ be distinguished from one another, the former being usually smaller and more strik- ingl}' marked, with the yellow spots brighter and more sharply de- fined. The female frecpiently lacks the inner row of large yellow spots seen on tlie upper wings of the male, they being sometimes re- duced in size or wholly wanting, wliile the lower wings are usually adorned with more blue than is to be found on the wings of the male. Beautifulh' colored varieties of this butterfly are occasionally taken, where 3'ellow and rusty red occupy a large part of the area of the 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 Denton, Sherman F. (Sherman Foote), 1856-1937; Bayer, Frederick M. , former owner. DSI. Boston : J. B. Millet
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