Article contents
ON THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF SATYRUS NEPHELE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
Extract
I have tried for several years past to raise larvæ of Satyrus nephele to maturity, but met with no success till this last spring. It is very easy to obtain the eggs by confining the female with a tuft of grass. I tied a gauze bag on such a tuft set in a flower pot, while in the Catskills, and 21st August, 1876, obtained perhaps fifty eggs. Some were laid on the blades and stems of the grass, but many were dropped loose on the ground. The eggs hatched about the 21st of September, and the young larvæ without feeding entered upon their hybernation.
- Type
- Articles
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1877
- 1
- Cited by