Rural School Leaflet. 



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destroy many injurious insects in the gardens at night. This was a new 

 fact for many of the children, and the Httle bat became an object of 



interest. 



Let us encourage the children to make a special study 

 this summer of one or two forms of life in the garden. 

 They will learn facts about many other forms but it is 

 well to haye them learn as fully as possible the life 

 history of one or two. I would suggest for the coming 

 season, the life history of the cabbage butterfly and the 

 tomato worm. Following are some suggestions that 

 may be helpful : 



THE CABBAGE BUTTERFLY 



The cabbage butterfly can be found in the garden in 

 four stages of its deyelopment: egg, larya or caterpillar, 

 chr\'salis, and butterfly. 

 Fic. -: I'liryalis The eggs are yellowish-green in color, somewhat pear- 

 of the tomato worm ^■^^^Q^^ ^^^ about the size of a large mustard seed. 

 They are scattered irregularly oyer the leayes of the cabbage and 

 some other yegetables, being fastened to the under side of the leaves. 



The caterpillars feed principally on cabbage leaves. They are 

 green with a narrow, greenish, lemon-yellow band on the back. 

 Place a caterpillar in a glass covered with mosquito netting and feed it 

 fresh cabbage leaves. 

 It will probably 

 change to a chrysalis 

 in the glass, and later 

 the butterfly will 

 come from the chrys- 

 alis. 



The wings of the 

 butterfly are a dull 

 white above, oc- 

 casionally tinged with 

 yellow, especially in 

 the female; below, 

 the apex of the fore 



wings and the surface of the hind wings arc pale lemon-yellow. In the 

 female there are two spots on the outer part of the fore-wing besides 

 the black tip, in the male one. Fig. 86. 



Fig. 



8S— //au'fe moth. This moth develops jrom the 

 tomato worm 



