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Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell University, 

 in October, December, February and April and Entered October 

 1, 1904, at Ithaca, New York, as Second-class Matter, under 

 Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor 



NewSeries.Vol.il. ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL-MAY, 1906 



No. 4 



INSECT STUDY 



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THE BUTTERFLIES. 



Photographs of butterflies by Professor M. V. Slingerland. 



A pleasure similar 

 to that afforded by 

 the sight of a beau- 

 tiful flower is experi- 

 enced when the eye 

 rests upon a bright- 

 hued butterfly. It 

 may be balancing it- 

 self about its partuei 

 in beauty, the flower 

 which gives it nectar, 

 or it may be fol- 

 lowing the graceful 



* . ° , BLACK SWALLOWTAIL. 



curves of its path in Expanse three and one-half to four inches. Color hrownish- 

 the air, or if fright- black, the front wings spotted ivilh yelloiv, the hind 



ptiprl it m:,i. v,"cr7Qo- u'tugs bearing yellow and blue Spots. There is a red 



eneu u may zigzag eye-spot at the inner angle of the hind wing. 



by so swiftly that the 



eye only catches a bit of moving color. Although almost every one is 

 attracted by these beautiful creatures, yet aside from two or three of 

 the most common species very few people know their names or their 

 habits. Yet each one of the butterflies has a most interesting life-history, 

 and some of them are of great economic importance. 



In New York State there have been found all told, between seventy 

 and eighty different species of butterflies. Probably any one locality 

 would give thirty or forty species if the hunt for them was continued 

 over a series of years ; but in almost every locality twenty species are 

 fairly common ; and the object of this leaflet is to make the pupils of the 

 Home Nature-Study Course acquainted with these more common butter- 

 flies, so that when they are seen on the wing they may be recognized, and 

 afford the pleasure which mutual friendly recognition always gives. 



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