. A tour round my garden . Natural history. LETTER XIX. THE CABDIS—ASPECTS OF DEATH—FLOWING WATER—DRESS—THE LEAP-CUTTER BEE. At the bottom of the rivulet are little morsels of reeds, little sticks of a few lines in length, which have nothing left but the bark. They are houses, in which the phryganes* suffi- ciently ugly greyish cocoons, feed upon aquatic herbs, and await the moment of issuing from the water in the form of little butterflies—your pardon, savants!—of little nocttiellce, which only fly by night. Previously to this transformation, there comes a moment at which they fall asleep gru
. A tour round my garden . Natural history. LETTER XIX. THE CABDIS—ASPECTS OF DEATH—FLOWING WATER—DRESS—THE LEAP-CUTTER BEE. At the bottom of the rivulet are little morsels of reeds, little sticks of a few lines in length, which have nothing left but the bark. They are houses, in which the phryganes* suffi- ciently ugly greyish cocoons, feed upon aquatic herbs, and await the moment of issuing from the water in the form of little butterflies—your pardon, savants!—of little nocttiellce, which only fly by night. Previously to this transformation, there comes a moment at which they fall asleep grubs, to awake flies. They know that during the time in which they take no food, they have enemies who have no notion of such abstinence themselves, and to whom, during their sleep, they could oppose no resistance. They know how to spin, and they employ themselves in closing up the two ends of their mansion. It has often been said, as an example of an invincible argu- * Phryganea grandis, the Caddis-fl?.— 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 Karr, Alphonse, 1808-1890; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. London : F. Warne ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
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