Word: butterflyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Nature is the central character, Man is hero of Van Loon's Geography. He is shown against an economic and geographic background, his character and achievements modified by the contours of his country, the bias of a mountain race, the tendency of a trade route. Not pretending to be...
California's butterfly horde left the high Sierras two months ago, began moving northward toward the Sacramento Valley. Traveling 20 m. p. h. it moved for a few hours, then stopped, dispersed, later gathered again for a fresh trip. Last week it was near the end of its migration, for...
For 24 years Austin Hobart Clark has been smelling butterflies in & about the District of Columbia. Just how much pleasure he has got from it he told last week in a 337-page volume laconically entitled The Butterflies of the District of Columbia & Vicinity. In it Butterfly Lover Clark, who...
Many male butterflies have the fragrance of flowers. The common orange-&-black regal fritillary, a shy little fellow, emits a strong, sweet, spicy odor resembling that of sandalwood. He feeds on the tops of red milkweeds and thistles, will flee if approached by man. The smell of the female is...
Butterflies grow up in odd places. The cabbage butterfly, in its caterpillar state, will sometimes pupate on firewood, often emerges from its cocoon in midwinter, much to the astonishment of gentlemen warming their feet in fireplaces. The cybele will lay eggs only on violets.