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haunts,* may be taken with much less fatigue 
than running after them. But an hour or two 
after sunrise they will be found feeding on 
flowers by the sides of woods, and are easily 
taken, and about sunset, many will be found 
on flowers in the same situations and in marshes. 
A warm damp air which often follows rain, is 
preferred by many species, when they will be 
found flying near the ground ; and in hot and 
dry weather, they will occasionally settle on 
the mud in ditches. 
Many moths may be beaten from the hedges, 
&c.; others are to be found settled on trees, 
pales and wrIIs. Fine evenings, from March 
to November should be devoted to mothing. 
Some species of moths are abroad by day, or 
in the afternoon, but by far the greater number 
fly from sunset, to a very late hour. Many 
fly all night long. When the air is very serene, 
the skirts of woods, marshes, banks of rivers, 
and meadows, near hedges, will be found to 
be the best situations ; but if windy, lanes in 
woods, and sheltered places ; “ twilight groves” 
and lanes are at all times excellent places, and 
* It should be remarked, that many insects are not 
only local, but have their peculiar haunts : some species 
being confined to one cei'tain spot, and are not to he 
found in any other part of the same wood. 
