64 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



farming and raise a lot of these greedy creatures, 

 you will find that they often show a high order of 

 insect sense, but the caterpillars seem to leave all 

 the sense they have in their chrysalides and the but- 

 terflies themselves are not remarkable for their 

 brains — not nearly as remarkable as they are for 

 their beauty ; brains and beauty do not seem always 

 to go together. 



But when you start to capture a butterfly and 

 to pursue him across the fields, you will find that 

 its seemingly aimless flight is not so aimless as it 

 appears. The butterfly is using the same tactics 

 and for the same reason that a big armored cruiser 

 does whenever the outlook spies the periscope of a 

 submarine poking up above the waves. Many a 

 time I have been outwitted by a butterfly which I 

 thought would be easy to capture. Still, they have 

 not the brains of the wasps, bees and ants. 



" The ebullition of voluntary energy of the 

 larvae is sometimes remarkable;" but "they are 

 rarely footless, usually possessing from one to five 

 pairs of embonpoint, abdominal props, besides 

 three pair of corneous jointed thoracic limbs!" 

 That's the way some of our teachers would speak 

 of a caterpillar, for it is much easier to spill these 



