Elementary studies in insect life elementarystudie00hunt Year: 1902 TI1K CYCLE OF 15 Born, bred, with just one instinct,— that of growth : Her quality was, caterpillar-like, To ail-unerringly select a leaf And without intermission feed her fill, Become the Painted Peacock, or belike The Brimstone-wing, when time of year should suit; And 'tis a sign (say entomologists) Of sickness, when the creature stops its meal One minute, either to look up at heaven, Or turn aside for change of aliment. Broivnuu/—' Red Cotton Night-Cap Country.' FIG. 16. Caterpillars of black swallowtail feeding on wil
Elementary studies in insect life elementarystudie00hunt Year: 1902 TI1K CYCLE OF 15 Born, bred, with just one instinct,— that of growth : Her quality was, caterpillar-like, To ail-unerringly select a leaf And without intermission feed her fill, Become the Painted Peacock, or belike The Brimstone-wing, when time of year should suit; And 'tis a sign (say entomologists) Of sickness, when the creature stops its meal One minute, either to look up at heaven, Or turn aside for change of aliment. Broivnuu/—' Red Cotton Night-Cap Country.' FIG. 16. Caterpillars of black swallowtail feeding on wild celery. Photographed from life. During the first five or six days of its existence this caterpillar becomes three-fourths of an inch long, black or very dark brown, excepting a white band around the sixth and seventh segments. It now prefers the tender flowers, eating all the parts but the yellow petals, which drop off untouched. (See frontispiece.) Throughout the caterpillar's growth at certain periods an interesting process occurs. It sheds the cuticular skin, an action frequently called molting. This gen- erally takes place during the early morning hours.
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