that
do not transform
least
once a day,
kept
in
in the
in water.
wide-mouthed
ground, light cages of gauze
may be
used, placing the food, which
The worms should never be exposed
bottles, or
even
in
common
tumblers covered with gauze, having sand enough
For
enable them to complete their transformations.
must be renewed
Caterpillars of small
to the sun.
leaf miners,
where
it
is
in
at
moths may be the bottom to
essential to preserve the leaf
till
the
gone through with its transformations, "a glass jar, tumbler, or jam-pot" (as Packard recommends), "the the bottom of which has been covered with moist top of which has been ground to receive an air-tight glass cover, Thus a larva in the summer will have to be fed but two or three times white sand, will keep a leaf fresh for a week.
insect has
before
it
up, they
changes; and the moth can be seen through the glass without taking off the cover." As the pupae easily dry The pupae of fall caterpillars do not change to the perfect insect till the following should b? kept moist.
summer, and during the time should be covered with damp moss and kept in a cool place. The observer should note clown the states of the different transformations in a book kept for the purpose, accomThe food plant should be particularly panied with full an;l accurate descriptions, and drawings when practicable. spring or
given. for the
When worm
an insect
to
become
is
reared from the egg the state of hatching should be noted, the length of time required
full fed,
and the period
remains
it
in the
pupa
state, as well as the state of
appearance of
the imago.
The
swallow-tails, belonging to the family PapiHoni&e, are
are found during
summer
quite
common
spots along the margin of the wings
and sulphur
its
in fields
and meadows.
largest
of Argynnis have the under side of the wings sprinkled with spots of silver.
it
abounds 4
in
butterflies,
and
Papilio asterias is a black butterfly with yellow
upon grasses, and are green, hairy
brown, with eye-like spots near the hinder margin
and most common
green and black, and feed upon parsnips, celery,
larva; are
butterflies in the larval state feed
among our
open woods.
caterpillars.
Siifyrtis
The
The
etc.
The
white
different species
has broad wings of a delicate
azure butterflies, and the class
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