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Pupils should make drawings of two groups of the small 

 animals inhabiting garden soil a useful, and an injurious 

 group. Teachers will do well to make a collection of such, 

 and with the help of a lens to examine the various types. 

 Familiarity with the detailed appearance is the first step 

 towards fuller knowledge regarding them. 



ANIMALS FOUND ON VEGETATION. 



Caterpillars. Caterpillars are scarcely ever absent from 

 a garden. We have elsewhere (p. 153) dealt with the struc- 

 ture and habits of these ; here we append notes of a few 

 of the commonest apart from the surface caterpillars 

 named above. 



All types of caterpillar found in the garden should find 

 a place in the rearing boxes. Before removing examples 



Fig. 163. The Cabbage Butterfly female, natural size. 



of new kinds from the garden, care should be taken to 

 discover their nature (Fig. 163). , 



Caterpillars of the large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae. 

 The eggs of this caterpillar are laid usually in clusters on 

 a cabbage leaf. They may occur elsewhere, e.g. nastur- 

 tium leaves. The caterpillar is a familiar one and scarcely 

 needs description. Above it is greyish green, below green. 

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