A BUTTERFLY SET AND MOUNTED FOR DRYING
Caterpillars, as they develop, shed their skins a number of times. When the little caterpillar has “grown too big for its breeches” it anchors itself by a few threads to a fixed spot, the skin splits along the back, and, being securely tied in place, remains fast, while the caterpillar crawls out of it. The larvæ begins then to feed and grow again, but often treats the shed skin as it treated the shell of the egg, using it as a sort of “first course” before resuming the more substantial vegetable diet.
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THE BUCKEYE
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ORANGE-SKIRTED CALICO
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