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insect pollen-carrier are to be thought of and studied 

 together), one would have an excellent speaking 

 acquaintance with the blossoming out-of-doors. 



Now, among the butterflies you ought to know 

 the mourning-cloak, or vanessa; the big red-brown 

 milkweed butterfly ; the big yellow tiger swallow- 

 tail ; the small yellow cabbage butterfly; the painted 

 beauty ; the red admiral ; the common f ritillary ; the 

 common wood-nymph but I have named enough 

 for this summer, in spite of the fact that 1 have not 

 named the green-clouded or Troilus butterfly, and 

 Asterias, the black swallowtail, and the red-spotted 

 purple, and the viceroy. 



Among the moths to see are the splendid Pro- 

 methea, Cecropia, bullseye, Polyphemus, and Luna, 

 to say nothing of the hummingbird moth, and the 

 sphinx, or hawk, moths, especially the large one that 

 feeds as a caterpillar upon the tomato-vines, Ma-cros- 

 i-la quin-que-mac-u-la'-ta. 



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There is a like list of interesting beetles and other 

 insects, that play a large part in even your affairs, 

 which you ought to watch during the summer : the 

 honeybee, the big droning golden bumblebee, the 

 large white-faced hornet that builds the paper nests 

 in the bushes and trees, the gall-flies, the ichneumon- 

 flies, the burying beetle, the tumble-bug beetle, the 

 dragon-fly, the caddis-fly these are only a few of 



