Excerpt from Nature Biographies: The Lives of Some Everyday Butterflies; Moths; Grasshoppers and Flies The full-grown caterpillar of the monarch butterfly is a good-sized black and white insect about two inches long, and of the general ap pearance shown in the picture (fig. It spins - sometimes upon the under surface of the milkweed leaf, some times elsewhere - a lit tle mat of silk in which it entangles the hooked claws of its hind feet. Then it lets go with its fore feet, and hangs downward with the front end of its body curled upward as in Figure 4. In this position it remains for some hours - perhaps a day - the body-juices gravitating downward and causing a swollen appearance on the lower segments. Then the skin splits apart again, and it is wriggled off by the confor tions of the body. When it finally drops away, there is left a strange-looking creature, broader below than above, whose appearance is shown in the picture (fig. This is a transition stage that lasts but a very short time: soon the form is entirely changed, SO that the broadest part IS fig. 4. - Caterpillar hung up for the above instead Of below. The Change to the Chrysalis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.