Among the moths and butterflies : a revised and enlarged edition of "Insect lives ; or, Born in prison" (1891)
Ballard, Julia P. (Julia Perkins) · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 114
the moth betempted to use it. Its wonderful tenacity oflife, when this fact is considered, is very re-markable. It will live about three weeksapparently without food, and pays slight at-tention to any thing ordinarily used in puttingmoths to sleep ! The moth stands most of theday with its wings… … 74 y^AfOAG THE MOTHS A AW BUTTERFLIES. to its last coat of handsome light green, be-fore going into its chrysalis (Fig. 41). It issaid by Harris to come out in June, but,whether on account of the very mild winterand the usual difference of climate betweenMassachusetts and Pennsylvania, or as a…
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