Hedgerow Life 
square plates of burnished silver, and 
even the chrysalis has metallic spots. 
At the end of the summer there are 
black spiny caterpillars which may be 
found feeding in numbers on the nettles 
in the hedges and ditches. These, when 
ready, hang themselves up by their tails 
under the shelter of a little tent made of 
nettle-leaves. In this tent they turn to 
a chrysalis,<which is also ornamented 
with spots of what looks like pure 
gold. These in due time turn into the 
red admiral butterflies which are so 
conspicuous in gardens and fields in 
September ; other black caterpillars, also 
feeding on nettles, turn into the peacock 
butterflies, whose wings bear ‘eyes’ 
like those on the tail-feathers of the 
peacock. 
These larger butterflies are as orna- 
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