REARING LEPIDOPTEHA I2t 



pupa boxes should be examined every day. A morning visit to 

 your pupae (for most insects emerge in the morning) may reward 

 you with the sight of a newly emerged imago, clinging to the 

 rough surface of the box, thus affording you an opportunity of 

 observing the wonderful expansion of the wings. But the greeting 

 is not always of such a pleasant character, for your disappointed 

 eyes will sometimes be cast on a host of horrid ichneumons that 

 have just quitted a shell from which you were expecting a prize 

 of some specially valued species. 



