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WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



BRIMSTONE MOTH. 



visits paid me in my study by several of these 

 lusty creatures, and when the shadow of their 

 wings, with an expanse of from two to three 

 inches, fell across the page of my book, it was 

 like that of a bat or bird. Throughout the 

 very rainy summer of 1903 I only saw a single 

 example. 



The female emperor moth figured on the 

 previous page was found and photographed, just 

 after it had left its pupa case, amongst rushes on 

 the Norfolk Broads. 



The seasonal fluctuations of insect life are 

 nothing less than wonderful. Two or three years 

 ago six spot burnet moths literally swarmed in 



