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In my territory they are very rare, only a few caterpillars and one moth have fallen to me. This can be accounted for by the fact that the favourite food tree of the caterpillar is so scarce, for some reason having become almost extinct, except in a few cases where they are used for shade. The eggs are a greyish green, and have the pearly appearance of almost all moth eggs.
If they wanted to lecture on the sturgeon or on caterpillars, they read the Old and New Testaments and Aristotle, and told their students everything these good books had to say upon the subject of caterpillars and sturgeons. They did not go out to the nearest river to catch a sturgeon.
While I was looking at some wild plum and cherry trees that were already swarming with blight in the shape of multitudinous caterpillars' nests, an ingenuous darkie, by name Cudgie, asked me if I could explain to him why the trees blossomed out so fair, and then all 'went off into a kind of dying. Having directed his vision and attention to the horrid white glistening webs, all lined with their brood of black devourers, I left him to draw his own conclusions.
This wonderful army of caterpillars suggested, as things in nature will often do if one takes heed of them, that it might be possible to introduce the culture of the silkworm here, and so substitute a profitable and honest industry for the present curse of this beautiful and otherwise highly favoured place.
I've been all over the orchard this morning, and this is the last tree I 've got to examine. I shall be done in a few minutes, and then I 'll walk around with you." "I should like to know where all these caterpillars come from," said Oscar; "do they come up from the ground?" "No," replied Clinton.
You can put that in a box with a screen cover to-night, and attract half a dozen, possibly." "Is it rare, Elnora?" inquired Mrs. Comstock, as if no one else knew. "It surely is," answered Elnora. "If we can find it a mate to-night, it will lay from two hundred and fifty to three hundred eggs to-morrow. With any luck at all I can raise two hundred caterpillars from them. I did once before.
Caterpillars cannot sting like wasps. And, in repeating that the old Marxians have been, perhaps, the best and bravest men of our time, I say also that they would have been better and braver still if they had never used a scientific word, and never read anything but fairy tales. The Beastly Individualist
The true Paradise Birds are omnivorous, feeding on fruits and insects of the former preferring the small figs; of the latter, grasshoppers, locusts, and phasmas, as well as cockroaches and caterpillars.
This is a crazy thing we're doing." "Oh, I'm sorry!" "You're an autocrat. You're a lady-Nero! Tell me, Miss Erith, were you ever afraid of anything on earth?" "Yes." "What?" "Lightning and caterpillars." "Those are probably the only really dangerous things I never feared," he said. "You seem to be young and human and feminine. Are you?" "Oh, very."
You'll kill him you'll kill him." "I kill him! Oh no," said Mr. Mountague; "I would not even kill a caterpillar." Lady Augusta coloured at these words; but she recovered herself when Dashwood laughed, and asked Mr. Mountague how long it was since he had turned brahmin; and how long since he had professed to like caterpillars and earwigs.
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