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Title: Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Entomology
Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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orange, mottled and striped as in the female. The eye-likespots are similar in both sexes. The male is also distinguishedby the antennae, which are shorter than those of the female,and have a beautiful double feathering, widest in the middle,and decreasing towards the base and tip, so as to give thewhole organ an outline much resembling that of the laurelleaf. The caterpillar is quite as conspicuous as the perfect insect.It is beautiful leafy-green in colour, and the segments aremarked so very distinctly that they look as if a number ofthreads had been tied tightly round the insect at the juncturesof the segments. On each segment are a number of pinktubercles, each tubercle bearing a small brush of black bristles,and being surrounded with a ring of black. It feeds on avariety of plants, but I have found it more frequently onheath than on any other plant. PLATE XV.NIGHT FLIERS. 1. Chelonia caja. 2. Lasiocampa quercus.y. Sarurnia carpini. 4. Dicranura vinula. Plaints:— Oak and Willow.
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THE EMPEEOE MOTH. 445 When it is full-fed, the larva spins a light-brown cocoonamong its food, and the perfect insect appears in the middle ofspring. This cocoon is one of the most remarkable and interestingof insect habitations. Externally it is a simple brown, ovalstructure, more pointed at one end than the other, and havingan outline much resembling that of a balloon. If it be care-fully opened, and cut in two longitudinally, a most remarkablestructure is seen. The smaller and pointed end is double, andwithin the outer case is a ring of short and stiff threads, look-ing much like bristles, their free ends directed towards themouth of the cocoon, which is allowed to remain open. Asthese bristle-like threads follow the curve of the wall of thecocoon, it is evident that their ends must converge so as toclose the opening against the entry of any insect foe, whilethey yield to the pressure of any creature within. In consequence of this arrangement, the pupa remainssecurely shut up in it

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