172 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



feeds upon the willow and poplar leaves ; the young 

 caterpillars have an ingenious way of making them- 

 selves sleeping-bags by neatly joining the oppo- 

 site margins of a willow leaf, lining the bag with 

 silk and sleeping in it all winter. 



THE APHRODITE 



The Aphrodite (Fig. 151) is a double-brooding 

 butterfly, the first specimens of which you will 



discover about the middle of June, and new 

 Aphrodites fresh from their chrysalides may be 

 found in the latter part of August. It has tawny 

 yellow wings — that is, the males have — while the 

 females have what might be called ochre-yellow, 

 and both gentleman and lady are of a brownish 

 color next to the body and near the hind edges they 

 have a black line. A row of black new moons 



