Do butterflies make love? In this male fritillary can be seen the scent organs clustered along the nervures that cross the middle of 
the forewings. The larger scales that cover these parts are covered with special cavities in the wing structure, from which they 
appear to derive an odorous fluid employed to charm the females 
Some Marvels of Insect Life 
A FEW GLIMPSES OF THE MANY WONDERS THAT ARE REVEALED IN THE GARDEN—NATURE’S PRO¬ 
TECTIVE FORM AND COLORING—HOW INSECTS FEEL AND BREATHE 
Edward Step, F.L.S. 
ACKYARD naturalizing 
cannot but become a 
hobby for those who work 
intimately with their plants. 
The more one looks, the 
more wonders are revealed. 
With the aid of a magnify¬ 
ing glass the backyard natu¬ 
ralist has even greater sights 
shown him. To write of 
them all would fill volumes, 
but herewith are shown a 
few that may tempt the un¬ 
initiated to begin their 
studies. 
Formerly any living crea¬ 
ture of small size was re- 
which these authorities have 
given the name of Arthro¬ 
pods. It includes the crabs 
and lobsters, spiders, centi¬ 
pedes, insects, etc. All these 
creatures agree in having the 
body built in segments or 
rings, all or some of which 
bear pointed appendages. 
The insects differ from the 
others in having these seg¬ 
ments grouped, in adult life, 
into three regions, usually 
quite distinct. These regions 
are the head, the fore-body 
and the hind-body. The 
spiders, which are commonly 
The antenna; or “feelers” are the 
seat of the sense of smell in 
most insects. Those shown are 
from the male moth of the 
common silkworm 
garded as an insect; in 
fact, among the present 
generation there are many 
persons for whom the 
word has scarcely any 
more definite meaning. 
All the multitudinous 
forms of animal life have 
been sorted out by natu¬ 
ralists and placed in a 
number of grand divi¬ 
sions, according to their 
possession of certain 
characteristics. There is 
no present need to name 
all these, but one division 
consists of animals to 
1 he caterpillar secures his cocoon to the branch to insure its safety when the leaf falls. Before 
making the cocoon proper, he carefully weaves around the leaf stalk, beginning at the branch 
and continuing it into the cocoon 
By this tongue the bee collects nec¬ 
tar from flowers to be converted 
into honey. As shown here, 
it has been dissected out from 
the surrounding mouth parts 
regarded in popular es¬ 
timation as insects, have 
only two body-regions. 
There are other differ¬ 
ences, of course, which 
are not evident upon 
a superficial view of 
the exterior form; but 
even here two or three 
additional points may be 
mentioned, contrasting a 
spider with an insect. 
The head of the insect 
bears a pair of antenna?, 
or “feelers”; the spider 
has no antennae. The in¬ 
sect, with a few excep- 
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