The colours of animals : their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects (1890)
Poulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir, 1856-1943 · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 62
34 THE COLOURS OF ANIMALS upon the plant. Thus the caterpillar of the Straw Belle {Aspilates gilvaria), feeding upon such plants as yarrow and plantain, coils up the anterior part of its body into a flat spiral, with the head in the centre. Hence the attitude and the whitish colour of the larva… … Fig. 9. — The than the twigs (see fig. 9). It is short larva of Large Emerald Moth and stout, and the manner in which the (Geometra papilionaria); body-rings succeed each other forcibly a green va- riety ; last stage; natural suggests the overlapping scales of a cat- size. kin. Some of the larvae…
Animals · Insects
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