Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 407
A near relation of the murdered caterpillar isthe larva of the New Zealand swift moth, uponwhose tapering head sometimes appears a similargrowth, which feeds upon the life-blood of thecaterpillar, until it dies from exhaustion. A very curious sight must be one of theseheavily-burdened crawlers… … LAKY.E OF THE NEW ZEALAND SWIFT MOTH. A transformation as curious, perhaps, in an op-posite direction, is that of the insect Drilus, which,in its larva state, lives upon the snail — animal lifedrawn from animal, instead of vegetable, substance.This beetle larva with its sucker-like feet…
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