Rural School Leaflet 



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bundle out of bits of the leaf and fastens tliis to the midrib near the 

 uneaten part. It moves this bundle down as fast as it eats the leaf. At 

 first it is a slender, warty, 

 little caterpillar, but as 

 it grows and sheds its 

 skin, it becomes hiunp- 

 backed and is orna- 

 mented with spines. The 

 second large segment 

 back of the head bears 

 two tall branched spines. 

 The caterpillar is a for- 

 midable looking creature, 

 and when it finally chan- 

 ges to a chyrsalis, it has 

 a large excrescence in 

 front, which looks like a 

 Roman nose. It requires 

 about a month from the 

 time the egg is laid for 

 the insect to develop 

 into its winged, or adult, 

 form. 



The story of the sec- 

 ond broody is very differ- 

 ent and is one of the mysterious happenings of the insect world. When 

 the caterpillar of the second brood hatches, it feeds, as did its parents, 



Viceroy above, monarch below, showing relaHve sizes and 

 imitative coloring. 



Larva and partly eaten leaf, above. 

 Winter home of second-brood 

 larva, below 



Larva and chrysalis of sovereign 

 butterfly 



on the tip of the leaf; but when it is about half-grown, it selects a leaf 

 and fastens the petiole to the twig wnth silk. It then gnaws the tip of 



