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Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Butterflies — and out of doors.

1. Where may the eggs of butterflies be found?
2. In what ways are caterpillars protected from their enemies?
3. How does a caterpillar grow?
4. Through how many transformations does an individual insect pass to become a butterfly?
5. How do butterflies feed?
6. What is the “dust'' on the wings?
7. How can one distinguish between moths and butterflies?
8. What common butterfly comes out of a pale green chrysalis ornamented with gold dots?
9. Do any butterflies migrate?
10. What butterflies feed upon violets?
11. Where is the largest species of butterflies found?
12. What butterflies hibernate?
13. What butterfly is a fighter?
14. Do fossil butterflies differ greatly from living forms?
15. Are caterpillars easily frozen to death?
16. Turn the pages of “Butterflies'' to find out of how many it is said “Early stages unknown.''
17. What important economic insect probably came from Europe as a “stowaway''?
18. What handsome swallowtail feeds, when a caterpillar, on parsley and parsnips?
19. How do the skippers differ from true butterflies?
20. What great scientists were butterfly collectors?