146 MINUTE MARVELS OF NATURE 



shop sense for masticating vegetable food, but 

 instead a long, coiled, sucking- tongue or proboscis, 

 which they unroll to gather honey from the flowers. 

 And if you watch any common White Cabbage or 



Fig. 94. Eggs of Privet Hawk Moth as deposited by 

 the insect. Natural size 



Tortoiseshell butterfly that visits the garden, you 

 will see how delicately the honey is sipped from 

 the various flowers. And then the cabbage butter- 

 fly flickers away to some choice young cauliflower 

 or cabbage and disappears beneath the leaf to 

 deposit its eggs! In the same way the tortoise- 



