Things to Find Out
Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Moths — and out of doors.
- How can one distinguish a moth from a butterfly?
- What is the life history of a moth?
- What is the largest and fiercest-looking caterpillar we find in this country?
- What caterpillars have poison in their spines?
- What kind of mouths have hawk moths?
- What is the use of a moth's antennae?
- Where would you put the chloroform in order to kill a caterpillar or a moth?
- Read “The World of the Dark,'' ; Sugaring for Moths, ; Walking as a fine Art,
- What do you think of Carlyle's poem, “The Tragedy of the Night Moth?''
- What farm and garden crops are attacked by the “bollworm?''
- What injurious moth occasionally migrates in swarms?
- What constant character gives its name to the night-flying underwing moths?
- The caterpillars of what moth congregate in great numbers on the foliage of walnut trees, and when disturbed lift up both ends of the body?
- Read Dr. Holland's account of collecting moths in Japan with Tora-san.
- What is the most rare and beautiful of the underwings?
- What is the life history of the white-marked tussock moth?
- What is the life history of the American tent-caterpillar?
- What is the walnut case-bearer's little game?
- Whence have come most of our destructive insects?
- What moths have wings made like an ostrich feather fan?
- What is the life story of the codling moth?
- What moth produces the elliptical gall on stems of golden rod?
- What is the life history of the clothes moth?
- What means of circumventing the pest are given?
- Read the romance of the Pronuba moth and the yuccas.
- What moth is its side-partner?
- Read the account of the silk-worm of commerce, and the history of silk culture.
- What are the constant characters of the great family of “measuring worms''?
- What device is suggested for staying the tree-climbing of the female moth of the canker worm?
- What is the differences between the spring and fall canker worms?
- How does the bag-worm make the bag?
- What moth's larvae feed in a soldier-like row and thus skeletonize a leaf?
- How does the leopard moth pass its youth?
- Read the life story of the maple-borer, ; corn-stalk-lover.
- What moth infests hives, eating wax and young bees?