THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTE LLIGENC E R. 
No. 91.] 
THE SEASON. 
u The times are out of joint.” What 
is the meaning of Clouded Yellows 
and Convolvulus Hawk Moths in 
June? If these insects make their 
appearance now, we may expect to 
see something still stranger later in 
the season. Perhaps Nerii is coming 
across the Channel by the score ! 
Perhaps some lucky collector is going 
to catch a dozen or so of Sphinx 
Pinastri. 
After the heat of last summer some- 
thing wonderful was expected, and 
certainly something wonderful has oc- 
curred, for never before were so many 
Colias JEclusa taken so early in the 
season. 
The Painted Lady ( Cynthia Carclui) 
also promises to be common ; so that 
there is a prospect of plenty of work 
for all incipient collectors. 
One collector writes to complain he 
can get nothing at sugar, because the 
crop of honey-dew is so very plentiful. 
Moths like honey-dew as well as ants, 
though the former are too idle to keep 
and tend their cattle. Where honey- 
dew is abundant, a natural sweet is 
[Price Id. 
universally spread ; hence it is not 
surprising that the moths disdain to 
select for their especial feeding posts 
the few trees which Juvenis has sugared, 
even though he has attempted to attack 
them on their weak side by adding a 
few drops of rum. By the way, we 
almost wonder some society has not 
been started ere this, combining the 
principles of a Temperance Society 
and the Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals, with the view of 
preventing collectors mixing intoxi- 
cating liquors with the sweet baits 
they put on the trees for moths : 
surely some one will be chivalrous 
enough to take up the cause of the 
hexapod creation, and insist upon their 
not being exposed unnecessarily to the 
attraction of intoxicating liquors. 
The lime trees will soon be in blos- 
som, if indeed already a few forward 
flowers are not out, and how full of 
blossom they will be! No moths will 
care for sugar while the limes are in 
blossom: so let entomologists, one and 
all, instead of complaining that moths 
won’t come to the sweets they put 
before them, study by observation to 
find out what sweets the moths do 
frequent. Given, a Noctua and its 
SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1858. 
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