. Wild nature's ways . ful llittings from flower to flower>as might at first sight appear. In order to securea picture of a large white specimen, my brotherwatched the beha\iour of a number one fine sum-mers day until he thought he had succeeded in de-tecting a favourite piece of wild thyme for them toalight upon. Focussing this, he put a plate into posi-tion, and attaching his pneumatic tube, stood as faraway as it would reach, but alas ! as soon as everthe recording eye of the camera was fixed on theflower, the butterflies took a fancy to another. WHITE BUTTERFLY ON THYME. INSECTS AT WORK
. Wild nature's ways . ful llittings from flower to flower>as might at first sight appear. In order to securea picture of a large white specimen, my brotherwatched the beha\iour of a number one fine sum-mers day until he thought he had succeeded in de-tecting a favourite piece of wild thyme for them toalight upon. Focussing this, he put a plate into posi-tion, and attaching his pneumatic tube, stood as faraway as it would reach, but alas ! as soon as everthe recording eye of the camera was fixed on theflower, the butterflies took a fancy to another. WHITE BUTTERFLY ON THYME. INSECTS AT WORK AND PLAY. 123 some distance away. The apparatus was changedagain and again, with precisely similar last, when on the verge of despair, it occurredto our photographer to focus one favourite flower,and then pull up all the others right round about,and within half an hour of this being done theillustration opposite was secured. The frontispiece to the present work wassecured more or less by accident. We suffereda very sudden fall in the temperature one after-noon in September, 1901, on the Surrey hills,and the butterflies were so benumbed by thecold that they were compelled to go to roostpractically wherever they found for a walk in the evening, I discovered
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