Life Among the Butterflies
by Vance Randolph
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About this eBook
- Author
- Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980
- Title
- Life among the butterflies
- Original Publication
- United States: Haldeman-Julius Company,1925.
- Credits
- The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Butterflies
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 67062
- Release Date
- January 1, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Life Among the Butterflies
- 2.Untitled
- 3.LIFE AMONG THE BUTTERFLIES
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIFE AMONG THE BUTTERFLIES
- 6.CHAPTER I BOOKS ABOUT BUTTERFLIES
- 7.CHAPTER II THE BUTTERFLY’S BODY — THE HEAD, EYES, AND MOUTH PARTS — THE THORAX, WINGS AND LEGS — THE ABDOMEN — THE DIGESTIVE APPARATUS — THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM — THE RESPIRATORY TRACT — THE EXCRETORY ORGANS — THE NERVOUS SYSTEM — THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
- 8.CHAPTER III BUTTERFLY METAMORPHOSIS — THE FIRST STAGE OR EGG — THE SECOND OR LARVAL STAGE — THE THIRD OR PUPAL STAGE — THE FOURTH STAGE OR IMAGO
- 9.CHAPTER IV THE CASE OF THE RED SILVERWING — OVIPOSITION — THE EGG — THE EMERGENCE OF THE CATERPILLAR — THE CATERPILLAR — MOULTING — PUPATION — THE CHRYSALIS — PUPAL MOVEMENTS — THE APPEARANCE OF THE BUTTERFLY
- 10.CHAPTER V THE CLASSIFICATION OF BUTTERFLIES — SUBKINGDOMS, CLASSES, ORDERS, AND SUBORDERS — THE FOUR FAMILIES — SUBFAMILIES, GENERA, AND SPECIES — THE VALUE OF SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE — VARIETIES
- 11.CHAPTER VI THE FOUR FAMILIES — THE FOUR-FOOTED BUTTERFLIES — THE EUPLOEINAE — THE HELICONIANS — THE NYMPHALINAE — THE SATYRINAE — THE LIBYTHEINAE — THE GOSSAMER-WINGED BUTTERFLIES — THE LYCAENINAE — THE SWALLOWTAILS AND THEIR ALLIES — THE PIERINAE — THE PAPILIONINAE — THE SKIPPERS
- 12.CHAPTER VII ENEMIES AND PROTECTION — PROTECTIVE COLORATION — OFFENSIVE ODORS AND TASTES — WARNING COLORATION — PROTECTIVE MIMICRY — HELIOTROPISM AND LIST — FEIGNING DEATH
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