The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 383
hen a fresh supply of food is required this net should becarefully laid over the board, and fresh leaves placed upon it, theworms will then leave the old half-eaten leaves and crawl throughthe openings in the net on to the fresh leaves, and as soon as theyhave done this, the net with the leaves and… … taken up with a feather or a small piece of paper, and laid onfresh leaves with the others. In about four or five days from their hatching, the worms willundergo their first sickness, or change of skin, when they willremain perfectly motionless, with the head slightly raised. Inthe course of two or…
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