. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. thai iiiako iiu inipi(>>iuii mi tlu- mn-vt M-nsitivi- luiman , take ulvantaf;t' iit this hut. ami whfii female appears in their breediiii; -iiit- apj: a^'e^ thev take her out tn blelocaht ]''Ml-tHuH MnTM. MKrapli s K'ahty and soon havia eniwd of ea^,'fr males around lu-r. It dtK's not matter that *lie is liiddeii from ^iKht. shut up [)erhap> in a chip box ; tlu' unsmellable odoiu is so powerful that it pervades the wails of her prison anfl the pmket of her jailor. It is within
. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. thai iiiako iiu inipi(>>iuii mi tlu- mn-vt M-nsitivi- luiman , take ulvantaf;t' iit this hut. ami whfii female appears in their breediiii; -iiit- apj: a^'e^ thev take her out tn blelocaht ]''Ml-tHuH MnTM. MKrapli s K'ahty and soon havia eniwd of ea^,'fr males around lu-r. It dtK's not matter that *lie is liiddeii from ^iKht. shut up [)erhap> in a chip box ; tlu' unsmellable odoiu is so powerful that it pervades the wails of her prison anfl the pmket of her jailor. It is within the experience of some collectors to ''"â ' â '''â have been mobbed, as it were, b\ malt' moths when they merely carried a box that had recentl\' contained a fresJi female, but was now empty. Infatuated males ha\e been known to come tlown a chimnev in the attempt to reach a female in a collector's breeding; ca^e. The female lays two or three hundred large eggs, in batches around the stems of the food-plant, as shown in our photograph. At first white, these eggs soon become brownish-grey. The newly hatched caterpillar is black, but after casting its t^rr^t skin it becomes green. When full-grown it is a beautiful object, being of a bright . green, the segments very distinct and plump, and bearing i>ink or yellow warts from which arise a tuft of black bristles. It feeds on heath, heather, bramble, blackthorn, sallow, purple loosestrife, meadow-sweet, yellow water-lily, and other plants. At the last it spins a pear-shaped cocoon of white or brown silk amon^; the branches of its food-plant, and makes prei)aration tor the easy exit of the moth by constructing the narrow end on the principle of the lobster-pot reversed. This narrow end is composed of straight threads whose ends converge, so that nothing can enter from without, whilst it opens to the slightest pressure from within. There rne those who claim that the lobster-pot must have been invented by a man who had examin
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectinsects, bookyear1915
