Identifier: insectsabroadbe00wood (find matches)
Title: Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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Fig. 403. —Boinbyx proeessioneii.(Pale brown, marked with dark brown.) place of repose in which they can pass their pupal state. Thisjourney they accomplish in single file, one taking the lead, thenext burying his head in the hairy tail of his predecessor, andso on until a long and continuous line is formed. A sym-pathetic feeling exists between them, for, if the leader shouldhalt even for a moment, the whole line also halts ; while, if oneof them be pushed aside, the one next in order moves up indouble-quick time, followed by its successors, so as to leave theline unbroken. These caterpillars are doubly disliked by the people. In thefirst place they are terribly destructive to vegetation, and in thenext, their hairs, like those of several British caterpillars, have ahorribly irritating quality, and are said to penetrate throughth.e clothes and so to enter the skin. Some persons aver thatthey make theii way even through thick boots, but this T take PLATE XVI.
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WIMG WINDOWS. 669 to be an exaggeration. This irritating power remains even inthose hairs which adhere to the pupa after it has buried itselfin the earth and shed its larval skin. In its larval state it spins large webs for its protection, justas our Little Ermine Moth does, and even fir-trees are so cut topieces by these larvae, that they seem to be nothing but bundlesof sticks and webs. The larvne of the group of IMoths called Saturniida? also spinwebs, but, instead of doing harm, the webs are utilized—someof the best silks being made from them. I need hardly mentionthe familiar names of Eria. Arrindy, and Tussore silks, all ofwhich are made by insects of this group. On Plate XVT, Fig. 1 is given a figure of one of these Moths,called Attacus Jorulla, a native of Orizaba, in Mexico. As isthe cane with most of its kind, it possesses soft and rich, thoughnot brilliant hues, and the general impression caused by it isthat of a soft, downy, pinkish brown. Taking this as the groundcolour

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