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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar51908newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A Part of the Farm Showing Shrubs Covered with Gauze to Prevent the Escape of the Insects Setting and Mounting Specimens It is probable that the average person who tried to do this would pierce the insect several times before killing it. It is the live stock, however, which makes Mr. Newman one of the busiest farmers in Great Britain, and often causes him to have to work eighteen hours a day. Each different breed of butterfly requires the special food which it would naturally search for if out of captivity, and it is the provid- ing of this food which causes Mr. Newman so much labor. Neither does the fact that the average butterfly eats twenty- five times its own weight in twenty-four hours make the task any easier. The larvae of the swallow tail butterfly, for instance, the biggest British butterfly, thrive only on wild and garden hawk, a beautiful pink-colored moth, which Mr. Newman also is obliged to feed sometimes in the manner shown in one of the accompanying illustrations. There he is depicted with a small camel's hair brush, which has been dipped in the saucer—on the edge of which the butterflies are resting —containing honey and water, just about to touch the tongue of one of the insects. The death's head moth, so called because it is decorated on its upper side with curious markings, somewhat resembling a skull and crossbones, feeds on the potato. This is the largest of British moths—the specimen shown in the photo- graph measures four and one-half inches across the wings— and has the peculiar power of emitting a strange squeaking
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The Caterpillar and the Moth in Their Native Land Larvae Inside a Cage A Rare " Black-veined' Moth

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