SOME COMMON GARDEN PESTS 



pockets on the hind wings, containing scent- 

 scales, which are supposed to attract the females. 

 It is an attractively colored and marked butter- 

 fly, but is not attacked by birds because it has a 

 disagreeable taste. 



BasilarcMa archippus the Viceroy Butter- 

 fly has no means of defense, but by mimicry has 

 taken on the color and markings of the Monarch, 

 and thus escapes. It can be readily distinguished 

 by the black crescent on the hind wing. 



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