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BY THE WAYSIDE 
BY THE WAYSIDE 
Published on the tenth of each month except July 
and August. 
The official organ of the Wisconsin and Illinois 
Audubon Societies. 
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All communications should be sent to Miss Ruth 
Marshall, Appleton, Wis. 
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WOODBINE FOLK. 
Few persons with woodbine growing over 
their piazzas realize how many near neighbors 
they have, but for nature students such a 
woodbine may be a place with many very in¬ 
teresting inhabitants, and not all of the same 
race either. 
The largest will be caterpillars—unless 
some small bird has built in the vine—either 
green or brown, with one end much longer than 
the other especially when at rest. When in 
motion this end becomes the smaller for out of 
it are protruded the head and first segment 
of the thorax. 
These caterpillars are Pholus (until recently 
called Philampelus) pandorus and achemon 
very similar in appearance but easily distin¬ 
guished by the oblique patches in their sides, 
those of pandorus being broadly oval with a 
clear line for their edge, while those of ache¬ 
mon are narrower and their edge is broken 
and irregular. Moreover, pandorus usually 
has but five obliques, while achemon has six 
with a trace of a seventh. When young both 
kinds have a caudal horn on the eleventh seg- 
ment, but this is moulted as they grow older, 
leaving a shinning fiat disc or tubercle in its 
place. 
When these caterpillars have eaten all they 
need and are of full size they crawl down and 
burrow in the earth, becoming dark brown pu¬ 
pae there. From these pupae emerge, m the 
following summer, beautiful “hawk-moths,” 
pandorus in shades of olive green with pink 
on its hind wings, and achemon in fawn color 
with pink on its hind wings. Both are very 
beautiful. 
More common are the smaller green, or 
brown caterpillars, with “broad shoulders,” 
Ampelophaga Myron, which keep their caudal 
horn until they become pupae. They do not 
burrow in the earth and pass the winter there, 
but spin cocoons like fish nets among the 
leaves on the ground, and instead of becoming 
dark brown pupae, are pale brown and speck¬ 
led. Their moths are in shades of metallic 
green with tan-colored hind wings. 
There may be found a much less common 
caterpillar plain green with yellowish ob¬ 
liques and a horn on the eleventh segment. 
This is Deidamia inseripta, and makes a pret¬ 
ty moth of brown, grav and silver array col- 
ors. The caterpillar has the third and fourth 
segments slightly enlarged, like all th'e others 
of which we have written so far, and is nearly 
akin to them, as is the more common Amphion 
nessus. This caterpillar is green when young 
and usually brown when full fed. It is a slug- 
gish creature but makes a lovely little moth, 
velvety brown and yellow in color, with a 
band of bright yellow around its brown body. 
If one is observing he may see these moths 
fasten their green eggs to the leaves of the 
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woodbine in the early dusk of June evenings, 
or in May if it is warm. 
The eggs of all these moth's are green, near¬ 
ly globular, and look like tiny drops show¬ 
ing the green of the leaf through them. 
iThey may be on the upper or under side of 
the leaves, on the stems or tendrils, and it is 
impossible to tell one kind from another un¬ 
less one sees th’e moth lay them. 
Most common of all the woodbine crawlers 
is the slender brown Thvrens abbotii, 
now called Sphecodina abbotii. This 
caterpillar comes from green eggs like 
the other, but is very different in looks for 
it has no enlarged segments and no obliques 
on the sides, but all its brown lines run long¬ 
itudinally, and it looks much like a piece of 
old, woodbine stem, until it rears its hinder 
end and looks like a small snake with a very 
big eye. The “eye” is th'e bright black tuber¬ 
cle left when the caudel horn was moulted, 
and the snake-like effect of the caterpillar 
when disturbed or frightened doubtless fright¬ 
ens birds which might otherwise eat it. 
Sometimes caterpillars of this kind are found 
with regular green patches along their bodies, 
but these are less common. The moth is 
larger than nessus, but in browns and yel- 
low and very pretty. 
There may be some smaller caterpillars— 
all these others grow to a length of two and 
a half inches at least—which seem to be lined 
with white, black and orange and have black 
spots. These are Alypia octomaculata., some¬ 
times called “the eight spotted wood-nymph,” 
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