. Butterfly and moth book [microform] : personal studies and observations of the more familiar species. Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. BUTTERFLY AND MOTH BOOK plan of Nature the controlling Intelligence gives even to the wee ones their chance to survive and round out their life cycles. This young Papilio fed at night, usually on leaves some dis- tance from the one on which it lived. It grew so fast that on July ninth it split its first skin and crawled forth in a new one of brown with light markings on the back. It changed its skin several times be- fore it was fully grown
. Butterfly and moth book [microform] : personal studies and observations of the more familiar species. Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. BUTTERFLY AND MOTH BOOK plan of Nature the controlling Intelligence gives even to the wee ones their chance to survive and round out their life cycles. This young Papilio fed at night, usually on leaves some dis- tance from the one on which it lived. It grew so fast that on July ninth it split its first skin and crawled forth in a new one of brown with light markings on the back. It changed its skin several times be- fore it was fully grown, and also its house, for the first little shelter soon became too small. Every new dwel- ling was carefully lined mith silk, and the last and largest o«c of all was made by drawing the kaf edges to- gether above the midvein. After a meal the larva had no dif- ficulty in locating its home and re- turned directly to it, showing, it seems to me, that it possessed a faculty akin to memory, for admitting that it retraced its steps by means of a silken pathway spun and spread for the purpose, still it must have been conscious of the fact that at the end of the path a shelter and compara- tive safety would be found. I peeped into this rolled leaf on July eleventh, the Green Cloud, which had become very green indeed, at once hunched up the front of its body so that the big eye-spots on its back seemed to glare at me most wickedly. As I still kept the leaf open it shot out its reddish prong, and, oh! what an odor. But I knew the " worm " was just " bluffing," so I put it, house and all, into a glass jar where I could watch it during the remainder of its creeping days. 216. The bMutifully proportioned ohrysalis emened. 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,
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectmoths, bookyear1912
