These caterpillars possess, in addition to the three pairs of true legs, additional pairs of prolegs orcaterpillar legs.
After a life of a few weeks at most, the caterpillar stops eating and begins to spin a tiny mat of silk upon a leaf or stem.
The manufacture of silk is due to the production of raw silk by the silkworm, the caterpillar of a moth.
This is a resting stage during which the body changes from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
The caterpillar may easily be recognized by its hairy, tufted red head.
The caterpillar in changing into the cocoon loses about 50 per cent of its weight; but the amount of loss differs in different breeds, and this is of importance to the cultivator.
Robinet, to expose them to a temperature gradually raised, in order that the caterpillar may be quickly developed.
As the general colour of the caterpillaris not correlated with that of the silk (8/72.
There is reason to believe that the nature of the food given to the caterpillar influences to a certain extent the character of the breed.
The caterpillar in Europe ordinarily moults four times before passing into the cocoon stage; but there are races "a trois mues," and the Trevoltini race likewise moults only thrice.
Footnote 7: The caterpillar of the Spurge Hawk-moth.
Footnote 5: For the Wasp known as the Hairy Ammophila, who feeds her young on the Grey Worm, the caterpillar of the Turnip Moth, cf.
Ridiculous attire, of which we are so proud, made from the slaver of a caterpillar or the fleece of a silly sheep: among its inventors the first and foremost is the Crioceris-larva, with its jacket of dung!
His struggle with the huge caterpillar of the Great Peacock Moth[2] is a thing to see once, not oftener: a single experience of such horrors is enough to disgust one.
The skin of the handsome caterpillar thus has two sorts of coloured patches.
Let us dissect the caterpillar and apply the lens to its mosaic.
The easiest way of destroying the Caterpillar is by immersion in spirit of wine.
It is then exposed to the air to dry, and it will have become quite hard in the course of a few hours, after which the sand may be shaken out at the small aperture and the Caterpillar then gummed to a piece of card.
Her caterpillar is a grub five or six millimeters long, white, with a black shiny head.
Well, that stomach the vermin possess: they revel in the pungency of the woolly milk mushroom even as the spurge caterpillar browses with delight on the loathsome leaves of the euphorbiae.
The caterpillar and the maggot are of another opinion: they greedily devour what we hold in dread.
If sometimes, when rinsing her salad at the tap, she found a caterpillar on the lettuce leaves, with a start of fright she would fling the loathsome thing away, thus cutting short relations reputed dangerous.
The caterpillar feeds on wax, but for want of this food will eat paper, wafers, &c.
The Eyed-hawk moth flies very swiftly by night, and its caterpillar is very beautiful.
The caterpillar emits a smell much resembling that of musk, and Ray and Linnæus both supposed it to be the Cossus mentioned by Pliny, as fattened with flour by the Roman epicures for their tables.
The caterpillar feeds on the wood of apple trees, but the moth is often found in great abundance in St. James's Park; sixty were gathered there in one morning, but the greater number had been half devoured by the birds.
The caterpillar of this moth also lives through the winter, a fact recently discovered by Mr. Samouelle, from whose obliging communications many of these notes have been derived.
This moth is remarkable for a white spot on its wing, and the caterpillar feeds on the flower from which it is named.
The Fox moth is chiefly found on heaths and commons, and lives in the caterpillar state all the winter.
The caterpillar lives in the interior of trees, and has, according to Lyonet, 4041 muscles.
The caterpillar is very destructive to hops, by devouring the roots.
Was it not the transformation of the caterpillar into the butterfly that first showed us on Earth how the soul might emerge winged and beautiful from its vile house of clay?
Raising itself on its tail, the caterpillar barked right back at him.
Hockin gave us a ghastly curiosity--a lignified caterpillar with a plant growing out of the back of its neck--a plant with a slender stem 4 inches high.
Hockiu gave us a ghastly curiosity--a lignified caterpillar with a plant growing out of the back of its neck--a plant with a slender stem 4 inches high.
My trees are troubled with canker-worms, tent-caterpillar and flathead borer.
Sprays with London purple before blooming, after blooming, and ten days later for tent-caterpillar and codling-moth, and believes he has reduced both of them.
My trees are troubled with tent-caterpillar and borers, and my apples with curculio.
I have never sprayed any, and believe tent-caterpillar is the worst insect that troubles me.
My trees are troubled with tent-caterpillar and flathead borer, and my apples with codling-moth.
Trees are troubled with tent-caterpillar and flathead borer.
My trees are troubled with tent-caterpillar and roundhead borer, and my apples with worms.
The green remnant of the caterpillar was lying on another leaf inside, but not connected with the one on which the wasp alighted, so that in running in it missed it, and soon got hopelessly lost in the thick foliage.
The caterpillar of the Bombyx moth, which is a native of France, exhibits very wonderful instincts.
When Mr. Davis removed one from the line the caterpillar immediately in front suddenly stood still, then the next, and next, and so on to the leader.
Yet although the caterpillar has an embryo psychology, its instincts and even intelligence often seem to be higher or more elaborated than is the case with the imago form.
On repeating the experiment by removing a caterpillar fifty from the head of the procession, Mr. Davis found that it took just thirty seconds by his watch for information of the fact to reach the leader.
I thought it had gone, but it returned again, and had another look at the opening in the dense foliage down which the other half of the caterpillar lay.
The caterpillar feeds on violets and does not appear in the daytime.
The caterpillar is large, nearly two inches long; black with stripes and bands of reddish-orange.
The rose demanded the caterpillar in marriage, feeling that within the caterpillar there was a divine butterfly.
Soon spreads the dismal shade Of Mystery over his head; And the caterpillar and fly Feed on the Mystery.
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
When the hen bird was sitting, the cock would bring a green caterpillar for her every four or five minutes, and sometimes take her place on the nest.
I once took from between the legs of a Hairy Ammophila, which had just paralysed it, a caterpillar of Dicranura vinula.
However pressed by hunger, the caterpillar of the Spurge Hawk-moth, which browses on the tithymals, will allow itself to starve in front of a cabbage leaf which makes a peerless meal for the Pieris.
The caterpillar is grabbed by the neck: lively contortions of the victim, which rolls the aggressor over and drags her along, now uppermost, now undermost in the struggle.
For the rest, there is no attempt at spinning a cocoon, no jet of silky threads flung out by the caterpillar before turning into a chrysalis.
The larva which dotes on Locust may find caterpillar a detestable fare; and that which revels in caterpillar may hold Locust in horror.
The Wasp is acquainted with this anatomical secret: she stabs the caterpillar again and again, from end to end, segment by segment, ganglion by ganglion.
I picture things thus: digging and rummaging through the heap of mould, guided perhaps by that singular sensibility of the antennae which enables the Hairy Ammophila to discover the Grey Worm (The caterpillar of the Turnip Moth.
Try merely to convince her that the caterpillarof a Butterfly is as good to eat as the caterpillar of a Moth.
During this fit of delirious joy, what is the wounded caterpillar doing?
The caterpillar of the Death's-head Hawk-moth requires the solanaceous narcotics, principally the potato, and will have nothing else.
When the operation is resumed, the caterpillar is seized by the back.
If you find an interesting caterpillar or cricket or bird, study it, whatever your grade of work.
Look for the shining masses of the eggs of the tent-caterpillar on apple and wild cherry trees; also for the yellow eggs of potato beetles on potato leaves.
The first visitor that you welcome will probably be a little woolly-bear, a brown and black caterpillar that you see so often in your autumn walks (Fig.
If you doubt that they are particular as to the kind of food they have, find out for yourselves whether the apple tree "worm" will eat milk-weed leaves or whether the milk-weed caterpillar will eat leaves taken from an apple tree.
The cocoon is the silken bag covering it, and is always made by the caterpillar before it changes to a pupa.
Show the spiracles on the body of anycaterpillar which is not hairy; they may be seen on the abdomen of a grasshopper or of a butterfly that has not too many large scales to cover them.
The difference is about as great as that between a caterpillar and a butterfly.
The promethea cocoon is enfolded in a leaf which the caterpillar fastened to a twig by means of silk before it spun the cocoon.
Most of the summer is devoted to the caterpillar phase of its life.
The silk glands of the caterpillar are situated near the mouth, while those of the spider are on the rear end of the body.
This caterpillar spins a silken thread wherever it goes and therefore leaves a trail of silk behind it.
During some of the molts the pupils should watch a caterpillar change his skin.
The red and black woolly-bear is the larva orcaterpillar of this moth.
On the hilly foreground is a red lily, and further afield a caterpillar and a strawberry plant.
Below the house is a caterpillar and a large blue butterfly.
TAIL-UP Tail-up was the queerest-looking caterpillar in the garden.
Meanwhile a long, thin, browncaterpillar keeps on pretending to be a dead thin beech-twig, on a little bough at my feet.
The caterpillar shook his stern, and the fly made off as if it had seen a ghost.
She had watched them unfold their weak fingers--yes, from Lord Street, Liverpool, she had watched them unroll as a soft caterpillar unrolls.
There's a place around Sargentville called Caterpillar Hill, with the most fascinating road winding up to it.
The second day, Angela's favorite spot, Caterpillar Hill, was chosen for a moonlight picnic.
Now your attention is arrested by the quivering antennæ of a long-bodied fly that is stealthily prying into leafy crevices, seeking for some living object, a caterpillar or chrysalis, into which it may insert its egg.
There she asked thecaterpillar what work it would do, and it said that it would watch the paddy, when it was spread out to dry after being boiled, and prevent the fowls and pigs from eating it.
It got whispered about that the old woman was so prosperous, because she had a caterpillar boy in her house.
Presently the Raja said that his kingdom was too small to give half of it to his son-in-law, so he proposed that they should go and conquer fresh territory, and carve out a kingdom for the caterpillar boy.
Every night the caterpillar boy used to take off his skin and go out to dance, and one night the maidservant saw him and told her mistress.
And when the palki was set on the ground, the caterpillar boy rolled out and the princess said that he should be her husband.
So she let it stay and that day she found that she collected a whole basketful of rice; at this she was delighted, and put the caterpillar on the top of her basket and took it home.
So the caterpillar used to watch the paddy while the old woman went out looking for food; and every day she brought back a full basket of rice, and so she soon became rich.
Leaving the beetle and the caterpillar to navigate the currents as best they could, he at once gave chase.
