Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . Fig. iio. — Apple Leaf denuded by FallWeb-worms. Nature Biographies. so abundant as to sew up a large proportion of theleaves. If I were required to hmit my use of the camera toany one phase of insect hfe, I should choose the transi-tion stages between the larva and the adult. For thesestages are so brief that it is difficult to get good drawingsof them, and the insect is then in such a condition thatit is impracticable to preserve it satisfactorily. But with. Fig. III. — Apple Leaves eaten by Older We
Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . Fig. iio. — Apple Leaf denuded by FallWeb-worms. Nature Biographies. so abundant as to sew up a large proportion of theleaves. If I were required to hmit my use of the camera toany one phase of insect hfe, I should choose the transi-tion stages between the larva and the adult. For thesestages are so brief that it is difficult to get good drawingsof them, and the insect is then in such a condition thatit is impracticable to preserve it satisfactorily. But with. Fig. III. — Apple Leaves eaten by Older Web-worms. a camera one can focus upon a chrysalis about to dis-close the butterfly, and when the insect comes out makea series of exposures that will give excellent pictures toshow the curious process of wing development. Ex-amples of this are given in the first two articles in thisbook. Attention has already been called, in a precedingarticle, to the fact that beautiful photographs are to beobtained by taking advantage of the fact that when a ii6 The Camera and the Entomologist. moth or butterfly becomes fully formed after emergingfrom the chrysalis, it rests quietly for about an hour toenable its tissues to harden preparatory to flight. Inaddition to the examples already given attention is called
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