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move them^ to give them fresh food^ care must 

 be taken to examine the leaves that none be 

 thrown away. 



The butterflies are all day fliers, and many species 

 are to be taken on the wing, at this season. A 

 simple method will often bring them down even 

 in their most rapid flight, and has been success- 

 fully employed in taking the Purple Emperor but- 

 terjiy, (Apatura Iris,) namely, to throw up a 

 stone or piece of tile before them, which they 

 will very often fly down with, and alight on 

 the ground, and are then easily captured. — 

 Some species will visit a single blossom, al- 

 though disturbed half a dozen times 3 and thus, 

 by watching their haunts*, may be taken with 

 much less fatigue than running after them. But 

 at an early hour in the morning, before the sun 

 is very powerful, and about sun set, many will 



* It should be remarked, that many insects are not only 

 local, but have their peculiar haunts : some species being 

 confined to one certain spot, and are not to be found in 

 any other part of the same wood. When, therefore, the 

 haunt of an insect is discovered, specimens may be taken 

 on the same spot for many years in succession. 



