. The butterfly vivarium; or, Insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium. Insects; Insects; Insects. CHAPTER XV. OF THE REARING OF EXOTIC INSECTS FROM IMPORTED EGGS OR CHRYSALIDES. T the time that I first published my work *^L\ entitled " British Butterflies and *\ZjP*T their Transformat
. The butterfly vivarium; or, Insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium. Insects; Insects; Insects. CHAPTER XV. OF THE REARING OF EXOTIC INSECTS FROM IMPORTED EGGS OR CHRYSALIDES. T the time that I first published my work *^L\ entitled " British Butterflies and *\ZjP*T their Transformations," now many '-C^ years ago, I suggested the pos- sibility of rearing some of the most magni- ficent of exotic insects in our hot-houses and conservatories, and even, in some in- stances, in the open air, with a view to their permanent establishment in the country. On turning to my former volume, I find the following passage in the Preface:—" Though we cannot transplant the flowers of the tropics to our bleaker soil, it appears by no means so impossible to naturalize some of their most splendid insects. Their system of hybernation in the pupa-case, in which state insects have been found to resist almost any degree of cold without injury, forming a na- tural means of shielding them from the effects of. 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 Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879. London, W. Lay
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