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The boy collector's handbook (1915)

Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1871-1954 · New York, R. M. McBride & co. · leaf 154

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eat manyof these find their way into the globes and arebroken, burned, and ruined, but many of them flitabout until tired, when they rest themselves uponnear-by trees, fences, or posts, or else becomedazzled or stunned and drop to the street or side-walk beneath the lights where they may be… … At Top, a Well Mounted Moth. At Bottom, Ichneumon Fly Emerging from Chrysalis {See Chapter V) INSECTS 123 Far more perfect specimens may be secured by rear-ing butterflies and moths than by catching themfully grown, you will learn much more abouttheir lives and habits in this way than by huntingthe…

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