434 NATURE STUDY. 



Butterfly. 



Study the living butterfly, without handling it, its head 

 and body (with two parts, thorax and abdomen), wings, 

 legs, feelers, eyes and mouth parts. 



How are the legs used ? Are all of the same size ? 

 Why so weak ? What an opportunity, in the wings, for 

 a lesson on the beauties of our world. Note the scales on 

 wings. Examine with magnifying glass. 



Fig. 46. Danais Archippus. 



Give the butterfly a drop or two of sugar and water, or 

 honey diluted with water, and see how it uncurls and uses 

 its tongue. The sirup is sucked up through a tube in the 

 tongue. Where does the butterfly get food out-of-doors ? 

 Why is its tongue so long? 



CABBAGE CATERPILLAR. 



If well fed these grow rapidly, and moult frequently, 

 and are likely to form their chrysalids in the schoolroom. 

 The caterpillar fastens itself by silken threads passed round 



