Dialogues on entomology, in which the forms and habits of insects are familiarly explained / [Anon].

Date:
1819
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Credit: Dialogues on entomology, in which the forms and habits of insects are familiarly explained / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s CATERPILLARS change their skins. Mother. That caterpillar was once so little, that it was contained in a small 11 nd scarcely as large as the head of a l)in- From the time it first came ont of the egg it increased gradually to its full size, having, in the mean time, changed its skin several times, Lucy. Flow did it change its skin ? Mother. As the little animal grows larger the skin becomes too tight to con- iain it, and at last bursts : the caterpillar then crawls out. In about a fortnight alter it has changed its skin for the last tune, the caterpillar becomes dull, and ceases, to eat; and having passed some days in this state, it then throws off its last skin, and takes a new shape. Lucy. What sort ol shape ? what is it like ? Mother. Look into this little box, and }ou will see that it is smooth and shining, as ir varnished over. Lucy. It does not look in the least tike a caterpillar : it is not so long; it J*s sm°oth and shining, and round. Of what a dark red brown it is ; and how