Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations . 1. Cheimatobia brumata. 2. Oporabia dilatata. 3. Melanippe hastata. 4. Melanippe montana. 5. Melanthia albicillata. at the same time concealing themselves from sight, and doingall the harm of which so tiny a creature is capable. It is insearch of these caterpillars that the small birds, more* especially the bullfinch and chaffinch, pick off and devour thebuds of fruit-trees. It is true that they do not restrict them-selves to those buds which contain caterpillars, but that theyact rather at rando
Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations . 1. Cheimatobia brumata. 2. Oporabia dilatata. 3. Melanippe hastata. 4. Melanippe montana. 5. Melanthia albicillata. at the same time concealing themselves from sight, and doingall the harm of which so tiny a creature is capable. It is insearch of these caterpillars that the small birds, more* especially the bullfinch and chaffinch, pick off and devour thebuds of fruit-trees. It is true that they do not restrict them-selves to those buds which contain caterpillars, but that theyact rather at random, picking oflf a bud first, and afterwards 456 INSECTS AT HOME. looking to see whether or not it contains a caterpillar. Still,the good that they do very much counterbalances the harm,and the little birds should be allowed to have their own waywith the fruit-trees. The late Mr. Waterton would never allowa single little bird ever to be scared from his trees, much lesskilled, and I never saw anywhere better prospects of heavycrops. Various plans have been tried to exterminate these mis-chievous
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