JUNE 



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"The leafy month of June" is one of the most prolific in insect life, and 

 consequently the number of species obtainable is now reaching its maximum. 

 Many eggs laid this month soon hatch, so that vigilance and activity will 

 have to*be exercised to secure the kinds which may be desired. 



THE WEATHER. As it is sometimes important, in fixing the time for an 

 entomological excursion, to know the weather we are likely to have, the 

 chief signs upon which it may be fore-casted are subjoined: 



A dark blue sky indicates fine weather. 



A rosy sky at sunset, whether clear or cloudy, presages fine weather ; 

 a bright yellow, wind ; a pale yellow, wet ; a sickly-looking greenish hue, 

 wind and rain ; a dark or Indian red, rain. 



A grey sky in the morning, fine weather ; red, bad weather, or much 

 wind, perhaps rain ; a high dawn, wind ; a low dawn, fine. 



Soft-looking, or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or 

 light breezes ; hard-edged, oily-looking clouds, wind. Generally, the softer 

 the clouds, the less wind (but perhaps more rain) may be expected ; and the 

 harder, more greasy, rolled, tufted, or ragged, the stronger the coming wind 

 will prove. Small inky-looking clouds foretell rain ; light-scud clouds 

 driving across heavy masses show wind and rain ; but if alone, they indicate 

 wind only. High upper clouds crossing the sun, moon, or stars in a direction 

 different from the lower clouds, or the wind felt below, foretell a change of 

 wind in their direction. After fine clear weather, the first signs in the sky 

 of a coming change are usually light streaks, curls, whisps, or mottled patches 

 of white distant cloud. 



Dew is an indication of fine weather ; so is fog. Remarkable clearness 

 of atmosphere near the horizon, distant objects being rendered unusually 

 visible, is a sign of wet, if not wind. 



P. Machaon on underside of leaf- A. Euphrosyne on clog, and sweet 



lets of Peucedanum palustre, violet ; bluntly conical ; dull 



in fens greenish at first, afterwards 



L. sinapis, b. ... on Vicia cracca, brownish 



and Orobus tuberosus ; long, Selene on dog, and sweet 



standing on end, curved, yellow violet 



white M. Artemis on scabious, plan- 



P. crategi on hawthorn, sloe, tain; upon the underside of 



and orchard trees leaves nearest the ground j 



A. cardamines ...on fl. -stalks of Car- yellow 



damine, Erysimum, &c. ; bright ,, Cinxia on Plantago lanceo- 



orange lata ; in batches 



C. Edusa white clover (Trifo- V. cardui, e. ...on thistles ; by pre- 



lium repens), lucerne, &c. The ferenceCirsiumlanceolatumand 



egg laid up to this time produces carduus arvensis ; low down on 



the imago in August the plant ; s. nettle 



