Sugaring for Moths 
collecting jars are full. We have taken more than a hundred 
specimens representing thirty species. Not a bad night’s work. 
Hurry up! Here are the draw-bars. Are you through? Put 
out the light in your lantern. Come quickly after me. I know 
the path. Here is the back garden gate. It is beginning to 
rain. We shall have to run if we wish to avoid a wetting. 
Ah! here are the steps of the veranda. Come up! 
My! what a flash an'd a crash that was! Look back and 
see how the big trees are bowing‘their heads as the wind 
reaches them, and the lightning silhouettes them against the 
gray veil of the rain. We may be glad we are out of the 
storm, with a good roof overhead. To-morrow morning the 
sun will rise bright and clear, and we shall have work 
enough to fill all the morning hours in setting the captures we 
have made. Good-night! 
“it is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many 
plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects 
flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to 
reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each 
other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all 
been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest 
sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance, which is almost 
implied by reproduction; Variability, from the indirect and direct action 
of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so 
high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural 
Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less 
improved forms. Thus, from the war of Nature, from famine and death, 
the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the 
production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is a grandeur 
in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally 
breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one. and that, whilst 
this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from 
so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful 
have been and are being evolved.”— Darwin. 
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