Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 473
1030 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. BIG AND BEAUTIFUL MOTHS. You may keep the cocoons, wrote Mrs.Bel, who furnished the specimens for the illus-trations in her article, Gathering Cocoons, on^age 455 of the MarchNature and Science. … moth crawled up on the plant, and its limpwings hung like pieces of wet cloth; but in afew hours they unfolded and became firm as thefluids from the body passed into the veins of thewings and hardened. Sometimes the wings trem-bled, and again theyopened and shut
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