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abdomen adult antennæ Asterias caterpillar band body branched spines brood brown butterfly Fig carpet of silk cater caterpillar skin Cecropia change to chrysalis chitin chrysalis skin Clouded Sulphur cocoon color common conspicuous covered creature eggs enemies eye-like spots eyes fastened feed female flies flowers folded food plant fore wings full-grown green habit hairs hind wings horns insects instinct Io moth jointed legs large numbers larva larvæ leaf leaves look loop male mandibles Milkweed caterpillar Monarch Monarch butterfly moth or butterfly moths and butterflies moult Mourning Cloak Natural nearly related orange Painted Beauty Pandorus parasites Photographed pillar Polyphemus posterior end posterior wings proboscis prolegs Promethea protected pupa Red-spotted Purple resemblance resting position segments side Silkworm slender Sphinx moth spinneret spinning spiracles structure Tent caterpillar thorax thread trees true legs tubercles Turnus Tussock Twin-spotted Sphinx underside upper surface usually winter yellow
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Page 5 - He who knows the most ; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, — is the rich and royal man.
Page 168 - More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. O mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Page 261 - The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice. And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace.
Page 116 - It suggests, besides, that the universe is not rough -hewn, but perfect in its details. Nature will bear the closest inspection ; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain. She has no interstices ; every part is full of life.
Page vi - It identifies by means of photographs from life forty common forms, in caterpillar, chrysalis or cocoon, and adult stages.
Page 6 - ... that one who has seen it only in an open country can form but an inadequate conception of the diversity of its movements on the wing. To see one on a bright summer day, when a stiff breeze is blowing, disport itself about the wide-spreading top of a high tree, is a choice pleasure. It seems to fairly revel with delight in a gale ; now it rolls and tosses and heaves, always heading against the wind ; now it spreads its sails to the breeze, and is hurried violently backward and upward ; again it...
Page 96 - Kill not — for Pity's sake — and lest ye slay The meanest thing upon its upward way. Give freely and receive, but take from none By greed, or force or fraud, what is his own. Bear not false witness, slander not, nor lie ; Truth is the speech of inward purity. Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit abuse ; Clear minds, clean bodies, need no Soma juice.
Page iii - The author is head of the department of biology and nature study in the Rhode Island Normal School.
Page vi - In caterpillar, chrysalis, or cocoon, nnd adult stages. It makes clear the external structure adapting the creature to Its life; It describes and Illustrates the changes In form from caterpillar to chrysalis, from chrysalis to butterfly.
Page 322 - ... layer, equal in depth, consisting of powdered cyanide of potassium, mixed with rather more than its bulk of dry plaster of Paris ; cover this mixture with a layer of dry plaster of Paris to the depth of a quarter of an inch or so, and pour in above the whole a layer, half an inch in depth, consisting of plaster of Paris mixed with water to the consistency of cream. As soon as the top layer of plaster is dry the jar is ready for use. To obviate the risk of cracking the jar owing to the heat evolved...