. The American boys' book of bugs, butterflies and beetles. Insects. Sphinx and Hawk Millers 111 pressed up against the body of the chrysalis, as is the case with the Pen-mark miller's pupa shown in Fig. 99. Figs. 100 and 101 show the caterpillar and moth of this miller. Some of the relatives have no jug-handles at all. The jug-handles are among the largest and stoutest of the I^epidoptera. They are the millers which we see flying around the flowers at night, and when their tongues are out searching for honey in the flowers they look so much like humming birds and act so much hke these little
. The American boys' book of bugs, butterflies and beetles. Insects. Sphinx and Hawk Millers 111 pressed up against the body of the chrysalis, as is the case with the Pen-mark miller's pupa shown in Fig. 99. Figs. 100 and 101 show the caterpillar and moth of this miller. Some of the relatives have no jug-handles at all. The jug-handles are among the largest and stoutest of the I^epidoptera. They are the millers which we see flying around the flowers at night, and when their tongues are out searching for honey in the flowers they look so much like humming birds and act so much hke these little befeathered mites that they are often mistaken for them. There are between three and four hundred of these millers. One kind lives on the pine trees and others on all sorts of leaves. A great many of them are down in Mexico, Central America and South America. June and July is the time you will find them at home, flying around the flowers in the evening. Our potato " worm" moth belongs to the largest ones of this family, and, although its tongue. 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 Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941. Philadelphia, Lippincott
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