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A FEW HINTS ON COLLECTING LARVÆ OF DARAPSA VERSICOLOR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Robert Bunker
Affiliation:
Rochester, N.Y.

Extract

For several years past I have searched carefully for larvæ of this species, only to be rewarded with damaged wardrobe and wet feet. This season I determined to try the plan of breaking off the button-bush branches and shaking them over paper spread on the ground. On my first trial I secured one nearly full-grown larva of versicolor, and six half-grown larvæ of promethea. Unfortunately I was unable to visit the bushes again until it was too 1ate. The advantages this method has over that of examining the bushes while standing are manifold.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1878

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