Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . Photo by] ^- -^^- ^?^-• The Clouded Yellow lU Although specimens of this beautiful butterfly uiav be taken in Britain in most years, it is only at intervals that we get a season whenit is plentiful. This abvmdaiice is due to the fact that migrating swarms have reached us m spring from South Europe or NorthAfrica, and have laid their eggs in our fields of clover or lucerne. The photographs are one-fourth larger than life. ? Psychidae. 50 Marvels of Insect Snail-like Case of Cochlophora. The basket-worm that cons
Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . Photo by] ^- -^^- ^?^-• The Clouded Yellow lU Although specimens of this beautiful butterfly uiav be taken in Britain in most years, it is only at intervals that we get a season whenit is plentiful. This abvmdaiice is due to the fact that migrating swarms have reached us m spring from South Europe or NorthAfrica, and have laid their eggs in our fields of clover or lucerne. The photographs are one-fourth larger than life. ? Psychidae. 50 Marvels of Insect Snail-like Case of Cochlophora. The basket-worm that constructs this portable house uses silkonly, but finishes it so that it resembles the texture of a snail are specimens in the British Museum that were received froma collector as the shells of actual snails. grass psyche. 1 The male moth is adehcate httle Insect with slender body,and the wings almost transparent, forthey have only a few brown and greyscales and hairs upon them ; but ithas rather large, feathery female, however, is such an oddlittle creature that anyone unacquaintedwith the facts would be indisposed toaccept her for a moth : she is muchmore like a chrysalis with the head andlegs free. She has the merest littlestumps for antennae, but no wings andno mouth. In the spring and earlv summer the caterpillars may be seen dragging their portable houses over the herbage. These dwellings are in this species nearly an inch long, and composed of a silken tube to which are attached pieces of grass, etc.,
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