Lepidoptera Facts

Lepidoptera Facts Preserving Butterfly And Moth Ova, LarvA And PupA Many young entomologists give their attention almost solely to the perfect forms of insects, often collecting and studying a very large number of species without regard to their earlier stages and metamorphoses. This is decidedly a very great mistake. Although the lifeless form pinned in […]

Lepidoptera Facts Catching Moths By Day The reason for choosing the sunny hours for butterfly collecting is obvious, all these lovers of brightness being then actively on the wing; and although many may be driven out of their hiding places by beating the herbage with the handle of your net, or even be searched out […]

Lepidoptera Facts Catching Butterflies There was a time when we would try to capture a butterfly at rest on a flower by a quick sweep of the hand, or, more commonly, by a sharp downward stroke of the cap. We were led to this action by a mere childish love of sport, or by a […]

Lepidoptera Facts The Management Of Butterfly And Moth Pupa The disappointments connected with the rearing of Lepidoptera are by no means at an end when all have passed successfully into the pupal condition, and the number of perfect insects obtained will often fall far short of the number of pupa in your boxes; but we […]

Lepidoptera Facts Catching Butterflies And Moths It is not at all surprising that entomology should prove such a fascinating study to the young, and more especially that portion which deals with the department we are now considering. Butterflies and moths are among the most beautiful and most interesting of living creatures. The study of their […]

Lepidoptera Facts Butterfly And Moth Eggs I suppose you are all acquainted with the general structure of the hen’s egg, having dissected several, in your own way, many a time. Its outer covering, which you speak of as the ‘shell,’ you have observed is hard and brittle. It is composed of a calcareous or limy […]

Lepidoptera Facts Classification Of The Lepidoptera The Lepidoptera are divided into two very unequal groups, to which we have so frequently alluded as ‘Butterflies’ and ‘Moths.’ And, although these two terms are popularly applied in a fairly accurate manner, yet, strange to say, very few persons indeed have any definite knowledge of the differences that […]

Lepidoptera Facts Setting And Preserving Butterflies And Moths Up to the present we have been dealing only with living forms-learning how to catch and rear the Lepidoptera that fall to our lot; but now we have to become acquainted with the methods of preparing our dead specimens in such a way that they may form […]

Lepidoptera Facts Structure And Life-history Of The Lepidoptera The word Lepidoptera, which you see at the head of this page, is the name of the order of insects to which this volume is to be devoted. It is formed from two Greek words, one (lepis) signifying a scale, and the other (pteron) denoting a wing; […]

Lepidoptera Facts Collecting Butterfly And Moth Pupa We have seen that ova and larva may be obtained in greater or less abundance at all times of the year, so variable are the seasons of the different butterflies and moths. The same remark applies equally well to pupa; but so many of the Lepidoptera spend the […]