NATURAL HISTORY STUDIES 



that of the winged moth or butterfly. The true 

 inwardness of the remarkable story is perhaps this, 

 that the full-grown butterfly or moth is usually an 

 intensely active creature, which eats little or 

 nothing, grows not at all, but lives for love. The 

 prolonged caterpillar stage in which there is much 

 eating and much growing is one in which stores 

 are accumulated for a much higher kind of life. 

 When the life of preparation is drawn out over 

 more than the summer, the quiescent pupa -stage, 

 well wrapped up, makes it easier to survive the 

 winter. The caterpillar and the chrysalid together 

 make the butterfly possible. 



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