. Butterfly and moth book [microform] : personal studies and observations of the more familiar species. Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. ODD DOINGS UNDEBGROmiD lie crawlers gnawed their wmy out. whick they «d on \he mom- mg of the twenty-foiMth. The catetpiHrn ^ birth were one- fourth of an mch long and of a yellow-brown color. Their ttbcKles were mere dark specks, but Umk began at once to grow in a remarkable mawier; five minutes after a larva hatched some of the tubercles would be three-sixteenths of an inch in lei^h and much branch- ed. When these tubercles were fufly for
. Butterfly and moth book [microform] : personal studies and observations of the more familiar species. Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. ODD DOINGS UNDEBGROmiD lie crawlers gnawed their wmy out. whick they «d on \he mom- mg of the twenty-foiMth. The catetpiHrn ^ birth were one- fourth of an mch long and of a yellow-brown color. Their ttbcKles were mere dark specks, but Umk began at once to grow in a remarkable mawier; five minutes after a larva hatched some of the tubercles would be three-sixteenths of an inch in lei^h and much branch- ed. When these tubercles were fufly formed a larva would turn and de- vour ail or part of its egg shell, quite. One youns Urv* laeding on hemlock as I had seen the Polyphemus do, and I did not find that a little Imperialis ever made a mistake as to which was its own shell I watched the caterpillars through a magnifying glass. They spun a good deal of silk as they moved hither and thither, and as they were restless and quarrelsome the fine threads soon became wrapped about the wee bodies and entangled in the branched spines. It seemed as if the insects were being caught m a web of their own weaving. For hours they showed no inclination to eat, although I pro- vided elm, pme. maple, sycamore, oak, sassafras, wild cherry butternut, hickory, and hemlock, all of which are said to b^ favonte food plants of the larvae. Finally, two fed on the hem- lock and lived, the other thirty-eight died-starved, so to speak m the midst of plenty. But in the face of this disaster I still had hopes of securing the life history of the Imperialis. for another piece of good foi>. 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 Robertson-Miller, Ellen, 1859-1937. Toronto : McClelland & Goodchild
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