. Nature-study; a manual for teachers and students. Nature study. 238 NATURE-STUDY larva, which is a large, fleshy, yellow and black striped cat- erpillar, feeds upon the leaves of the milkweed, and forms a beautiful green and gold chrysalis. The adult has broad, brown wings, banded or nerved with black, with several rows of white spots along the border. An interesting thing about this species is that toward the close of summer it migrates southward in vast swarms. I have seen the sky full of these butterflies flying and drifting with. Fig. 8f). Sphinx-niuth, IN'ute lung proboscis. Scale ill i
. Nature-study; a manual for teachers and students. Nature study. 238 NATURE-STUDY larva, which is a large, fleshy, yellow and black striped cat- erpillar, feeds upon the leaves of the milkweed, and forms a beautiful green and gold chrysalis. The adult has broad, brown wings, banded or nerved with black, with several rows of white spots along the border. An interesting thing about this species is that toward the close of summer it migrates southward in vast swarms. I have seen the sky full of these butterflies flying and drifting with. Fig. 8f). Sphinx-niuth, IN'ute lung proboscis. Scale ill inches.) the wind on their way South. Sometimes they will settle for the night in the trees of the forest, when it is an easy matter to collect them by the hundred. A butterfly which, by most people not especially acquainted with it, is taken for the monarch is the somewhat smaller Viceroy. This butterfly illustrates the wonderful mimicry that some insects and other animals are capable of. The monarch butterfly is not eaten by birds, probably because of a disagreeable odor and taste. The group to which the viceroy belongs are generally purple and white, and are liked by birds, but the viceroy by putting on a "lion's skin,". 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 Holtz, Frederick Leopold, 1870-. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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