Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book

Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image: FIG. 27. — Egg masses of forest Tent-caterpillar, laid on branch. Photo, by V. H. L. 1 A poetic name of Diana, from the mountain Cynthus. 2 The name of the fabled one-eyed giant blinded by Ulysses. 3 A name hi Greek mythology, THE BUTTERFLY AND ITS ALLIES 27 destructive species, which infest apple trees and even foresttrees (Figs. 25 and 26). Eggs are laid in a ring-like clusteraround a twig (Fig. 27). Here they pass the winter andhatch out in the spring as young larva1. The larvae are grc-

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 28. — Nest of Clisiocampa tl/xxtria, the forest Tent-caterpillar, showingthe web and the way the larvae crowd together on it. Photo, by V. H. L. garious and spin a tent-like web, on which they live whennot feeding (Fig. 28). When ready to transform, theyspin a cocoon made of a yellow powder mixed with silk.The Noctuidae 1 (Owlet moths) are night fliers and are 1 From nox, night. 28 ZOOLOGY attracted by our lamplights. They are the most numer-ous of all our moths, eighteen hundred species being knownfrom our country. Among the largest members of this group are the Catocala l moths alreadyreferred to. Here also are placed theboll-worm, which eats cotton-pods andgreen ears of maize ; the cotton-worm,which destroys the foliage of cotton;the army-worm, which devours grassand young grain ; and the myriad cut-worms, of which some gnaw off younggarden shoots at the level of the ground,while other kinds ascend trees and de-stroy buds. To the Noctuidse belongalso the Tussock moth (Fig. 2

Note About Images