. [Scientific lectures]. m seen in our dwellings,but live quietly and honorably in the woods, where they may be foundif sought, but they never seek you. They may be easily distin-guished as they have bushy, feathered antennae. The female lays her eggs in bunches, upon the water; they floatabout and soon hatch to go through the metamorphosis spoken other flies they grow in the larval and pupa state, and after theyacquire wings they do not grow, so the small midges are not youngmosquitoes, as some think. But how we can get along with them isthe question. If you go into the woods hunting
. [Scientific lectures]. m seen in our dwellings,but live quietly and honorably in the woods, where they may be foundif sought, but they never seek you. They may be easily distin-guished as they have bushy, feathered antennae. The female lays her eggs in bunches, upon the water; they floatabout and soon hatch to go through the metamorphosis spoken other flies they grow in the larval and pupa state, and after theyacquire wings they do not grow, so the small midges are not youngmosquitoes, as some think. But how we can get along with them isthe question. If you go into the woods hunting or fishing you candisgust them by using a solution of carbolic acid and oil of tar. 52 Aftei this has been applied they will look you over to see if they canfind a place where that is not, but they refuse to eat if that is soap also answers a good purpose, and if used before youretire, by washing yourself with the suds, it is said to pPK«ent thebite of the flea and bed bug, also. CABBAGE WORM. Pieris Rapm. Fig. 26, Fig. 28. Fig. 27, butterfly of the cabbage worm, male. Fig. 28, female. The female is distiti-gnished from the male by having two round spots, rarely three, on the wings. The bodyof this bntterfly is black above, with white wings, a, cabbage worm; 6, chrysalis. This worm, the product of the rape butterfly, is the great pest ofthe cabbage grower, and doubtless the worst of all oui imported insects. It was imported from England to Quebec in 1857, as it issupposed, with a quantity of cabbages; but it was so sparse thatnone were seen until 1859, and so rapid was its increase that in 1864it had extended at least forty miles in eveiy direction from Quebec,and it was estimated that it caused the loss of a cabbage crop thatwould have sold for at least $250,000. In England and Europe it is the butterfly everywhere common;its larva is the dread of every cook, as she expects to cook severalwith every cabbage, notwithstanding her utmost care. Its chrysal-ides are
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