204 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



midsummer and early autumn are the gala sea- 

 sons for these beautiful and dainty creatures. 

 The moths, being principally night flyers, are best 

 photographed from reared specimens, although 

 one may often find them resting, during the day, 

 among the thicker foliage. The butterflies may 

 be photographed any and every where, how- 

 ever. One need not 

 take long, wearisome 

 tramps in the hot sun 

 to find subjects. Any 

 flower-covered field or 

 piece of marshland will 

 supply him with all the 

 material he can con- 

 veniently use, and he 

 will find that, in such 

 a place, two dozen 

 plates will be all too 

 few for the demands 

 made upon them. 

 The marshes, where 

 grow the thoroughworts, milkweeds, sunflowers, 

 and thistles, I have found -to be the places most 

 prolific with butterfly life, and have spent many 

 a pleasant and instructive morning or afternoon 

 in such a place. 



The orchards are also good places to work, for 

 they are the chosen haunts of the angle wings. 



Moth on Tree Trunk. 

 Showing protective coloring. 



