l<']ig if. takes tlic Avnrms to pnss thTou^h their various eiiangcs. Yon 

 observe that they finally turn into full-grown butterflies. Note down 

 in your books the size of the body; shape and color of the wings; Low 

 they are folded when at rest; shape of the antennae or feelers, and 

 any other striking peculiarity you may notice. 



Now. I will speak of only one or tM'o more, and one of these is the 

 Tomato Moth. I speak of it here in order to show you the difEerence 

 between a moth and a butterfly. 



Every farmer boy or girl knoAvs a tomato worm, of course, and some 

 of them are afraid to touch one for fear they will get pricked with the 

 sharp horn sticking out of his back; but that was only put there to 

 frighten timid people. It is not a dangerous weapon. I wonder how 

 many of you know how long it takes this worm to become full grown, 

 and where it goes after it stops eating? Did you know that it goes 

 into the ground and remains there all winter? Well, it does; and so 

 in order to follow it through its other two changes this year, it will 

 be necessary to begin this spring. Go into the garden when they are 

 plowing the last year's tomato ground, and you will probably find a 

 number of brownish, oblong objects about an inch and a half in 

 length, each having a queer little jug-handled arrangement at one 

 end. They are apparently dead, but if you pinch one of them it will 

 probably sqiiirm a little, enough to let you know that it is alive, but 

 that it has not yet awakened from its long winter's sleep. Now, place 

 some moist soil in the bottom of ihe breeding ciioc and bury these 

 again and Mait until about the time your father's tnni;ifo plants are 

 Avell grown, when you will be surpriserl some morning to find some 

 beautiful large moths in j'our cage in place of the ugly-looking things 

 you put there. 



Now uct your notebooks and observe ]iow they differ in size of 

 body, shiipe and color of their w]n,»-s from the cabbage butterfly. How 

 do they fold their wings -when at rest? Are their antennae of the 

 same shajje as those of the butterfly? Now I think you will be able 

 to tell some of the difl'erenccs at least between a moth and a butterfly. 



But, someone asks, why don't we see these moths flying about in the 

 daytime, like the butterflies? Sure enough. That is a peculiarity that 

 we overlooked, because these moths have been kept in a cage all of this 

 time. If you let them out you will see that they will go and hide 

 themselves as quickly as possible until just at twilight, when you may 

 see them, if you look sharply, flitting from flower to flower, sipping 

 the sweet nectar from the deep flower tubes which the bees could not 

 reach. "Watch them and see how they remain poised over the flower 

 while they poke iheir long tongues down into it. Can you think of 



