HO HABITS. 



thought that sometimes small people might give 

 lessons to larger ones. After about an hour, the 

 larva ceased to work, a real bridge was built 

 over the torrent, and upon it lay motionless and 

 out of danger the little larva. Would you call 

 such an act instinct," he adds, " or would you 

 call it reason ? If you call it instinct. I would say 

 that this instinct is very reasonable. " 



The caterpillar of the Red Admiral (Vanessa 

 Atalanta) constructs a somewhat similar [Pig. 95] 

 though more perfect nest by fastening together 



FIG. 96. Vanessa Hantera. nat. size ; under surface on right (Harris). 



the opposite edges of a nettle-leal the tip of 

 which it eats when too lazy to go away from home, 

 until there is barely enough left for shelter ; its 

 weight causes the leaf to droop, so that the nest- 

 is easily discovered. Its next allies, the cosmo- 

 politan Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) and the 

 American Painted Beauty (Vanessa Huntera), 

 [Fig. 96], construct a different sort of nest, draw- 



