. Animal activities; a first book in zoo?logy. Zoology; Animal behavior. ANIMAL ACTiyiTIES. Caterpillars. Keep these singly in tumblers with fresh supplies of the plant on which they are found feeding. When many caterpillars are needed for class study a '' breeding-cage '' may be made by placing earth in the bottom of a large box, covering the box with netting, and supplying plenty of food and moisture. If panes of glass can be set in the sides of the box, so much the better. Cabbage- worms are easily ob- tained, and the butterflies can be reared from them with very little care. The cabbage -
. Animal activities; a first book in zoo?logy. Zoology; Animal behavior. ANIMAL ACTiyiTIES. Caterpillars. Keep these singly in tumblers with fresh supplies of the plant on which they are found feeding. When many caterpillars are needed for class study a '' breeding-cage '' may be made by placing earth in the bottom of a large box, covering the box with netting, and supplying plenty of food and moisture. If panes of glass can be set in the sides of the box, so much the better. Cabbage- worms are easily ob- tained, and the butterflies can be reared from them with very little care. The cabbage - butterflies are sometimes called "whites". In observ- ing butterflies and cater- pillars use the questions in Chapter V. Flies. Allow adult bluebottle flies to deposit eggs on pieces of meat or fish in tumblers. Watch the growth of the eggs. Keep in a fairly warm place and furnish mois- ture. See further suggestions in Chapter VI. House- flies may be watched in tumblers. Feed them on sugar and watch their movements. Early in the fall house-flies will deposit their eggs on stable- manure. Spiders. All our common spiders are harmless. To collect spiders invert a tumbler over them, and im- prison the insects by covering the mouth of the tumbler with a card. The garden-spider is a good one to. Fig. 3 A Cabbage-butterfly. larva; b, pupa; c, egg; d, 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 French, Nathaniel Stowers, 1854-. New York [etc. etc. ] Longmans, Green and Co
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