A Guide for the Study of Animals

Name: A Guide for the Study of Animals
Author: Whitney, Worrallo

Whitney, Worrallo

Zoology -- Laboratory manuals

|Monarch          | 4-4½    |May and Oct|Milkweed and dogbane|Open fields
   |                 |         |           |                    |  everywhere
     |Brick-red color, veins black, borders of wings black

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 Fritillaries or Silver Spots

   |Variegated       | 1¾-2½   |August     |Passion flower      |Low fields
   |  fritillary     |         |           |                    |
     |Orange-brown color, checkered with black, no silver spots. A southern
     |  species

   |Regal fritillary | 3-4     |July,Aug   |Violets, pansies    |Low fields
     |Upper side of wings reddish with wavy black lines, hind wing dark

   |Great spangled   | 3-4     |July,Aug   |Violets, pansies    |Meadows
   |  fritillary     |         |           |                    |
     |Similar to _idalia_, but hind wings lighter. Silver spots on under
     |  surface of wings

   |Silver-bordered  | 1½      |Jul,Aug,Sep|Violets, pansies    |Meadows,
   |  fritillary     |         |           |                    |  hillsides
     |Edge of wings tipped with silver, silver spots below

   |Meadow fritillary| 1¾      |Jul,Aug,Sep|Violets, pansies    |Meadows
     |No silver border, silver below

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 Checker Spots

   |Baltimore        | 1¼-2½   |June,July  |Turtlehead and aster|Swamps
     |Groundwork of black with many red and white spots. Conspicuous border of
     |  red spots

   |Harris checker   | 1½      |June       |Aster and daisy     |Clover meadows
   |  spot           |         |           |                    |
     |Wings dark bordered, lighter band across middle of wings

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 Crescent Spots

   |Silver crescent  | 1¼-2    |July       |Asters              |Roadsides
     |Groundwork of orange-red mottled with black, silver crescents on under
     |  margin of hind wings

   |Pearl crescent   | 1¼-1⅝   |July,Sep   |Asters, daisy       |Roadsides
     |Similar to silver crescent but colors are paler

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 Angle wings

   |Comma            | 2       |May,Jun,Aug|Elm, nettle, hop    |Along woods and
   |                 |         |           |                    |  waste places
     |Pale red, angled wings, under surface light gray marked with silver commas

   |Interrogation    | 2½      |May,Jul,Aug|Elm, nettle, hop    |Near trees
     |Similar to comma, but marked with silver semi-colons

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 Tortoise Shells

   |Compton's        | 2¾      |Feb,Oct    |Willow              |Near water
   |  tortoise       |         |           |                    |
     |Looks much like the angle wings, but has no silver spots

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A Guide for the Study of Animals

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