is damaged to one which has just emerged from pupa. The latter counts one 

 perfect specimen, the former probably contains fertile eggs and may produce 

 hundreds of perfect specimens and her offspring may propagate thousands. Col- 

 lecting does not pay, as a rule, and butterfly farming does. Collecting is hard, 

 disappointing, and generally unprofitable work, while any woman or child may 

 obtain eggs, rear larvae and do every branch of farming. All of it can be 

 done at home except the work of obtaining the females which lay the eggs. 

 To obtain females one must thoroughly understand collecting. 



THE FOUR STAGES OF BUTTERFLY LIFE. 



The four stages of butterfly life are egg, larva, pupa and adult. While 

 you are collecting butterflies and moths with the net or by other processes, you 

 are on the constant lookout for eggs, larvae and pupae. Gather from shrubs, 

 bushes and trees all that you can find in either stage. Eggs are frequently laid 

 on leaves, and as a rule are found on the foodplant upon which the caterpillar 

 will feed. Larvae are always found upon the leaves of their natural foodplant, 

 unless you happen to meet them when they are crawling on the ground in search 

 of a favorable place to pupate. 



EASY TO OBTAIN EGGS. 



Nearly all the moths and about one-half of the butterflies will oviposit in 

 paper bags and boxes if you will simply feed them once a day. They require 

 no other care and are not the slightest trouble or worry. In sugaring for moths 

 I buy the little pasteboard boxes used by druggists, which are approximately 

 3x2x1 inches, though the size may vary with the size of the moth. What are 

 known by druggists as "No. 49 White Slide," is a favorite size and can be 

 purchased at about $2.00 per gross. If you are careful not to render them 

 sticky by putting in the apple when it is too wet, you can use the boxes over 

 and over again. For large moths and butterflies use paper bags obtained from 

 the grocery stores at a few cents per hundred. Use different sizes, according 

 lo the size of the insect. 



FEEDING THE FEMALE. 



Procure from your grocer a quantity of dried apples. Evaporated aoples 

 will do, but the old-fashioned sun-dried article is preferable. Place a sufficient 

 quantity of these in a bowl or pan and cover them with cold water. When the 

 water is absorbed add more until they are thoroughly soaked, then add to the 

 water a little strained honey, a tablespoonful of honey to a quart of water is 

 sufficient. Sugar or molasses will answer but are not so good as honey, for 

 they will ferment and you must throw the apples away, while the honied mixture 

 can be washed off the pieces which are used, and the apples when dried can 

 be used over and over. The fly does not eat the apple, it simply sips the 

 honied moisture. Without this the fly would soon perish from ithirst and 

 hunger. Each day when you insert the new piece of apple remove the old 

 one unless it be covered with eggs, in which case you must allow it to remain 

 in the box. Feed your moths in the day time and your butterflies at night and 

 they will not be so apt to escape when you open the box to insert the apple, 

 for butterflies do not fly at night and night-flying moths do not fly by day. To 

 use paper bags you simply fold or crease the two sides of the top of the bag, 



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