ble enemies. The Anosiae are 

 often called the Milkweed but- 

 terflies, because the young feed 

 largely upon the different va- 

 rieties of milkweed. 



About the first of March they 

 begin to disappear. A few at a 

 time, they vanish from the pines 

 and from the gardens, and by 

 the end of the month they are 

 almost entirely gone. Just be- 

 fore leaving they are much 

 more wild than on any previous 

 occasion ; ordinarily they are re- 

 markably tame, and it is not un- 

 common for one to alight upon 

 a person standing among or near 

 flowers they can easily be 

 picked up wherever encoun- 

 tered. But he who would touch 

 one in March must be agile in- 



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