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 139
-. And what is this daintycreature ; or, rather, what was he ? You willexclaim when I tell you he was the revolting-lookincr, lar(Te, careen tomato worm. Snappish and really dangerous in that form—requiring to be taken with great care—thechange in his disposition seems as great asthat in his… … FIG. 53. LARVA OF THE QUINQUEMACULATA MOTH. ness (and I have seen no moth that does),still he is timid and quiet; although I fancywhen touched there is a trace of the originaldisposition in the short, quick flutter he givesin response. It has not been an easy mat-ter to secure this moth. It is a…
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