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conscience; although the real nature lover dislikes 

 to kill, even pests. 



CATERPILLARS 



It is the common belief that caterpillars are 

 always hairy, but we have seen that among the 

 caterpillars of the moths many of them are naked, 

 and such is also the case with the butterflies. When- 

 ever we use the word butterfly now, we mean the 



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ones which fly by day, and not the millers. The 

 caterpillars which turn into butterflies always have 

 sixteen legs. They have a pair of scaly- jointed 

 legs attached to each of the first three divisions of 

 the body and they have four pairs of fat fleshy legs 

 attached to the divisions, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the body 

 (Fig. 1461/2). These fat legs have no joints at 

 aU to them; they are shaped something like piano 

 stools. Besides the fat ones they have a pair of 



