Even when it was understood that I wished caterpillars, cocoons, and chrysalids, for the butterflies and mothsthey would later make, looks of pitying contempt were cast upon me.
But all of them are interesting, some are valuable, and many grow into very beautiful moths and butterflies," I ventured to defend myself.
When I come back," Mary Virginia said to him at parting, "I expect you'll know more about moths and butterflies than anybody else in the world does.
I completed, too, the long delayed drawings of some diurnal wasp-moths and their larvæ.
The Padre's crazy about moths and butterflies, you must understand, and we're always on the lookout to get them for him.
The case of certain diurnal moths mimicking butterflies appears to be explicable without the aid of the theory of protective mimicry.
Quatrefages states that the hybrid progeny of the silk-moths Bombyx cynthia and B.
Of these only the bramble has any pretensions to colour, and if you try, as I have tried, the experiment of picking off every petal from sprays of bramble blossoms you will find that its attraction to moths does not appear diminished.
In some species of moths individuals occur in which the parts normally red are yellow.
Among birds the chief enemies of butterflies andmoths are probably to be found in those that hunt for their food in bushes and trees.
It is alleged that in the cases where moths resemble butterflies the former are either as diurnal as the butterflies or are species which "readily fly by day when disturbed.
Even now in some places in France they call us the moth birds, for they believe that our bodies will keep away moths from woolen cloth.
It was also supposed to possess many astonishing virtues, as that its dried body would avert thunderbolts, and if kept in a wardrobe would preserve from moths the woolen stuffs and the like contained in it.
No young bees or moths were discovered in the hive.
Now as the moths have got possession of the ground on their frontiers, it requires a tremendous effort on the part of the bees to save their little colony from a complete overthrow.
The moths are often complained of when they are not guilty.
They are sometimes robbed by their adjoining hives, and then the moths finish or destroy what is left.
As the young ones are constantly hatching, their habits will be formed at the new stand, and the combs will not be as likely to become vacated, so as to afford opportunity to the moths to occupy any part of their ground.
Grenfell became a student ofmoths and butterflies.
His interest in birds excited an interest in flowers and plants and finally in moths and butterflies.
The Chickadee is very fond of the eggs of this moth and hunts them assiduously during the four weeks of the summer when the moths are laying them.
A collection that we have made for ourselves of moths or flowers, for instance, is far more interesting than a stamp or coin collection where we buy our specimens.
The moths are among the most beautiful creatures in nature and a reasonably complete collection of the specimens in your neighbourhood will be something to be proud of.
A favourable locality is selected, a comparatively open space in preference to a dense growth, and several trees are baited or sugared to attract the mothswhen in search of food.
From pupae which had been frozen almost all the moths which emerged showed aberrational markings.
A polymorphism offering a parallel to that of the variable moths is afforded by the breeding plumage of the Ruff, the male of Machetes pugnax.
Only in such examples as this of the Coereba, where colour constitutes the sole difference, or that of the moths which have been minutely studied by many collectors, does the significance of the facts appear.
We have next the interesting fact that like our melanic moths the dark form is replacing the "type.
A curious parallel to the rise of the melanic moths in England is provided by the case of the Honey-creepers or Sugar-birds, in certain West Indian islands.
The same fate will attend you that attends all such little moths of the footlights!
You are like a lamp for unfortunate moths to burn themselves in!
The blowflies buzzed about the ceiling; on the table under the lamp a dozen or moremoths lay singed and dead.
The lamp had attracted a swarm of flying things: giant moths beat their wings against the globe, or fell singed and sizzling down the chimney; winged-ants alighted with a click upon the table; blowflies and mosquitoes kept up a dizzy hum.
Bats and large moths flitter around, whilst all the day-world is at rest and asleep.
There are plenty of examples of this phenomenon, such as the hornet-like moths and bee-like flies of our own country, and many other instances will be found in these pages.
Close Closets that have become infested with moths should be well rubbed with a strong decoction of tobacco, and repeatedly sprinkled with spirits of camphor.
Easy Method of preventing Mothsin Furs or Woollens.
During the remainder of my visit I was perfectly comfortable in my new room, and the curious fact must be stated that after I had left the moth-room the moths forsook it too.
She had often seen one or two brown moths in the rooms at night, but she owned that never before had she seen huge gray ones.
I could see no moths flying about outside, but nevertheless the window must be kept closed till I opened it again in the dark, before getting into bed.
The smallest of those moths must have been quite an inch long in their fat gray bodies, and quite three inches long across the wings.
I thought I knew mostmoths by sight and name, but I had never seen any like these before.
I can handle a spider, and bear with a black beetle, but with big woolly moths I cannot live happily.
Yet even among Moths there are some more brightly colored than others, and when you find part of the family quietly dressed you can know it is because they have to lay the eggs.
The Mothsusually wear brown and have it brightened with touches of buff or dull blue.
The Night Moths have many kinds of feelers, most of them being curved, and those of the Cecropias look like reddish-brown feathers pointed at the end.
Moths are safer in dull colors, and the egg-layers should always be the safest of all.
All the day long, when the sun is shining, the Moths have to rest on trees and dead leaves.
They were very large Moths and their wings were of a soft dust color with little clear, transparent places in them and touches of the most beautiful blue, quite the shade worn by the Peacock, who lived on the farm.
But the year following, when the eggs produced by the moths of these fine crops of foreign origin were tried, a singular degeneracy was immediately recognised.
The cocoons are finished, and the appearance of the mothsalone is waited for.
The few moths which have succeeded in piercing their cocoons do not show any corpuscles.
He attached extreme importance to ascertaining whether the presence of corpuscles in the chrysalides or moths of the good groups, and the absence of the same corpuscles in the worms of the bad groups, was an accidental or a general fact.
Quatrefages related that some Italian naturalists, especially Filippi and Cornalia, had discovered in the worms and moths of the silkworm minute corpuscles visible only with the microscope.
Who can tell, thought Pasteur, whether the prosperity of the silk cultivation may not depend on the practical application of this production of pure eggs by means of moths free from corpuscles?
Notwithstanding that the malady was universally prevalent, he succeeded, after several days of assiduous microscopic observations, in finding some moths free from corpuscles.
Finally, Pasteur came to the conclusion that the only infallible method of procuring healthy eggs must be by having recourse to moths free from corpuscles.
To make sure that the eggs were pure it was only necessary to have recourse to the microscopic examination of the moths which had produced them.
He fed these healthy worms on leaves over which a clear infusion made from the remains of moths or worms exempt from corpuscles had been spread with a paint-brush, instead of leaves contaminated with corpusculous remains.
A still more significant fact was, that corpuscles were also absent from the chrysalides and the moths of those few worms which were able to spin their cocoons.
There are several species of moths whose caterpillars live in the very heart of trees.
Butterflies and mothspass through a caterpillar stage having even more striking resemblances to worms.
Indeed the larger silkworm moths do not and cannot feed, and their value is only that of a device for keeping the race established.
And the effect upon him of the idea was the very same effect that the idea of moths and butterflies as a Topic of Conversation for Parties had had upon Mr. Watts, when Arethusa had presented it to him at the dinner-dance.
Moths and butterflies," she added, in explanation to that questioning expression.
She entirely forgot that she had ever prepared a Topic of Conversation for the Occasion; she made no other mention of moths and butterflies; not once did she quote a line of Poetry.
Fireflies shone and grey moths went by to the lighted windows; above the treetops a bat wheeled and wheeled.
The summer night deepened, hot and languorous, with a sweep of moths to the candle flames, with vagrant odours of flowering vines and vagrant sounds of distant laughter, voices, footsteps down the long street.
The dusk deepened; the odour of honeysuckle and syringa grew heavier, and white moths sailed by on their way to the lighted windows.
The stigma having been fertilised with pollen brought by moths from another flower, the corolla closes as before in the early morning, and never again reopens.
Nearly all are fragrant, as otherwise it would be difficult in the darkness for them to attract the moths which they mostly desire as pollen bearers.
One cannot be so splendid as the moths and sphinxes, who have nothing to do all summer but to lay eggs among the petals that their offspring may devour them; no, there is work to be done.
In the earlier ages of the world, the lemon does not appear to have been at all known, and the Romans only became acquainted with it at a very late period, and then only used it to keep moths from their garments.
They were only known to the Romans at a very late period, and, at first, were used only to keep the moths from their garments: their acidity was unpleasant to them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
