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naturedl3\ "I decidedly deserved it; and, loesides, I 

 practice similar modes of impressing facts upon my 

 pupils, and as it serves admirabl}', I can't complain in 



this case. I am sure 

 that I, at least, will not 

 forget that some mother- 

 moths are wingless." 



''Very good, then; 

 since I am full}' ab- 

 solved, I may resume 

 our story. I captured 

 these specimens as they 

 were making their way 

 ' '. up one of our apple 



'"'4^»/^ I a trees, having just left 



,n the "I'ound in which 



FIG. 40. — OKCHARD MOTH, WING- '^ 



LESS FEMALE, WINGED MALE, they had maturcd. It 



AND LAKVA. 



was formerly supposed 

 that the canker-worm moths came out of the ground 

 only in the spring. It is now known that many of 

 them rise in the autumn and early part of the win- 

 ter. In mild and open winters I have seen them in 

 every month from October to March. They begin to 

 make their appearance after the first hard frosts in the 

 Fall, usually toward tlie end of October and continue to 

 come forth in numbers according to the mildness of 

 the weather after the frosts have begun. 



"However, their general time of rising is in the 

 spring, beginning about the middle of March, and they 

 continue to come forth for the space of about three 



