Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 374
igo5. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 269 ^BECAUSE- WEI WANT TO KNOW often mistaken for a humming-bird. Abington, Pa. Dear St. Nicholas: Can you tell me the name ofthis insect ? I have caught them in the garden, in the … MOST COMMON HUMMING-BIRD MOTH. daytime, on the phlox and verbenas. They never lighton the flowers, but keep their wings going like a hum-ming-bird. Yours truly, Morris H. Merritt. Several sphinx-moths, from their habit ofhovering over flowers with wings in rapidmotion, are frequently mistaken for…
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