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 211
va,it does not change the larvainto a vegetable substance. A near relation of the mur-dered caterpillar is the larva ofthe New Zealand swift moth,upon whose tapering head some-times appears a similar growth. lyo AMONG THE MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. which feeds upon the life-blood of the cater-pillar… … 83. 1.AKV.-E OF THE NEW ZEALAND SWIFT MOTH. pillar bears this growth upon its head, it heraldsthe slow but certain death of the overloadedinsect. A transformation as curious, perhaps, in anopposite direction, is that of the insect Drzlus, THE BULRUSH CATERPILLAR. 171 which, in its larva state,…
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