Hedgerow Life 
flowers, are dearly loved by the starlings, 
which eat them greedily in the autumn ; 
and many of the smaller warblers are also 
very fond of them. Ivy berries, service 
berries, and the scarlet yew berries are 
eaten by thrushes and missel-thrushes. 
The flowers and blossoms also are 
great attractions to certain insects. In 
the early spring, when the golden sallow 
‘palms’ are studding the bare twigs in 
every hedgeside, many small moths have 
just been hatched from the chrysalis ; 
and at the approach of night these 
night-flying insects flock to the sallows 
for the nectar contained in them. If 
you examine a sallow bush in full bloom 
with a lantern on a favourable spring 
night, about ten o'clock or later, you 
will see innumerable spots of ruby light 
in pairs. These are the glowing eyes of 
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