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http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_05_porter_64kb.mp3 | 170.53 | 188.32 | i watched the tail question sharply and soon learned the cats had been after every lady bird that visited our garden or any of our neighbours for not one of them had a tail when this information was carried my father he became serious but finally he said perhaps the tail was very short those of humming-birds or wrens w... | 17.79 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000000 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_04_porter_64kb.mp3 | 475.95 | 493.61 | the eggs on the floor and curtains were guarded with care they were dotted around promiscuously and at first were clear and of amber colour but as the little caterpillars grew in them they showed a red line three fourths of the way around the rim and became slightly depressed in the middle the young emerged in thirteen... | 17.66 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000001 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_09_porter_64kb.mp3 | 250.06 | 265.77 | there are numbers of these catocala moths running the colour scheme of yellow from pale chrome to umber many shade from light pink through the reds to a dark blood colour then there is a smaller number having brown back wings and with others they are white | 15.71 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000002 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_07_porter_64kb.mp3 | 511.85 | 528.22 | it felt so badly it did not even close them when i took a brush and spread its wings full width soon after it became motionless i had begun photographing moths recently it was one of my very first and no thought of using it for natural history purposes occurred at the time | 16.37 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000003 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 128.96 | 146.59 | there are also the deep yellow io pale blue-green luna and polyphemus brown with pink bands of the saturniidae and light yellow red-brown and grey regalis and lavender and yellow imperialis of the ceratocampidae and their relatives | 17.63 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000004 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_13_porter_64kb.mp3 | 224.17 | 243 | the big fine cases and cocoons are the ones you find made by caterpillars in freedom or by those that have passed at least the fourth or fifth moult out of doors so it was a better thing for my illustration and for my painting when in june of this year raymond in crossing town from a ball game found a large perfect mod... | 18.83 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000005 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,927.82 | 1,941.55 | the moth on appearing seems all head and abdomen the wings hanging limp and wet from the shoulders it at once creeps around until a place where it can hang with the wings down is found and soon there begins a sort of pumping motion of the body | 13.73 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000006 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_14_porter_64kb.mp3 | 536.26 | 551.23 | the claspers were prominent and sharp the finishing touch of the exquisite creation lay in the fact that in motion in strong light the red wine shadings of the under side cast an intangible elusive rosy flush over the dark back of the moth | 14.97 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000007 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_08_porter_64kb.mp3 | 373.21 | 386.71 | it stopped travelling after a day or two at a screen covering the music-room window and there i found it one morning lying still a shrivelled shrunken thing only half the former length so it was carefully picked up and thrown away | 13.5 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000008 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_07_porter_64kb.mp3 | 542.4 | 561.55 | i have been very careful in making studies to give each one its proper environment when placing it before my camera of all the flowers in our garden celeus prefers the hollyhocks at least it comes to them oftenest and remains at them longest but it moves continually and flies so late that a picture of it has been a tas... | 19.15 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000009 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_11_porter_64kb.mp3 | 478.66 | 490.18 | it is for this reason i often have waited for days and searched over untold miles to find the right location even the exact leaf twig or branch on which a subject should be placed | 11.52 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000010 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_01_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,186.71 | 1,205.39 | and to professor r r rowley for the laborious task of scientifically criticizing this book and with unparalleled kindness lending a helping hand where an amateur stumbled chapter one | 18.68 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000011 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,945.45 | 1,960.14 | the cast skin rapidly darkens and as i never have found a trace of it in an opened earth ball in the spring i suppose it disintegrates rapidly or what is more possible is eaten by small borers that swarm through the top six inches of the earth's crust | 14.69 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000012 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 733.65 | 743.97 | and on the sides an oblique dash of pale blue the head bore ten horns four of these were large an inch in length coloured tan at the base black at the tip | 10.32 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000013 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_06_porter_64kb.mp3 | 471.4 | 489.93 | behind the hotel i found an empty hominy can in which it soon began spinning but it seemed to be difficult to fasten the threads to the tin so a piece of board was cut and firmly wedged inside the caterpillar clung to this and in the darkness of the can spun the largest and handsomest luna winter quarters of all my exp... | 18.53 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000014 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_06_porter_64kb.mp3 | 518.96 | 537.89 | they usually find the females by ten o'clock or midnight and remain with them until morning i have found mated pairs as late as ten o'clock in the forenoon the moths do not eat and after the affairs of life are accomplished they remain in the densest shade they can find for a few days and fly at night ending their life... | 18.93 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000015 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_10_porter_64kb.mp3 | 415.32 | 427.44 | i did not water any of the cocoons i answered i have done no sprinkling today if they are wet it has come from the inside molly cotton dropped her trowel one of them was damp on the top before lunch she cried | 12.12 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000016 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_10_porter_64kb.mp3 | 363.38 | 383.37 | during the winter these occupied the place of state in the conservatory and were watched every day they were kept in the coolest spot but where the sun reached them at times always in watering the flowers the hose was turned on them because they would have been in the rain if they had been left out of doors and conditi... | 19.99 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000017 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_12_porter_64kb.mp3 | 341.04 | 354.49 | they were of olive-green shading into red at the base the costa was red and an escalloped band of red bordered them the intervening space was transparent like thinnest isinglass and crossed with fine red veins | 13.45 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000018 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,315.97 | 1,334.36 | then the happy time began soon there were heaps of pearly pale yellow eggs piled in pyramids on the leaves and i made a study of them then i gently lifted a leaf carried it outdoors and in full light reproduced the female in the position in which she deposited her eggs even in the act of placing them | 18.39 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000019 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_01_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,174.66 | 1,186.71 | the book proves my indebtedness to the deacon and to molly cotton i also owe thanks to bob burdette black the oldest and warmest friend of my bird work for many fine moths and cocoons | 12.05 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000020 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_10_porter_64kb.mp3 | 400.92 | 415.32 | i hung the twigs over a twine stretched from my dresser to the window-sill one day in may when the trees were in full bloom i was working on a tulip bed under an apple tree in the garden when molly cotton said to me how did you get that cocoon in your room | 14.4 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000021 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_01_porter_64kb.mp3 | 588.56 | 601.6 | but what of the millions of nature lovers who each year snatch only a brief time afield for rest and recreation what of the masses of men and women whose daily application to the work of life makes vacation study a burden | 13.04 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000022 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 201.29 | 216.69 | i would try to decide whether he created the birds flowers or butterflies first ultimately coming to the conclusion that he put his most exquisite material into the butterflies and then did the best he could with what remained on the birds and flowers | 15.4 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000023 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 95.08 | 109.68 | the water in the ditch had kept them in flower long past their bloomtime on one of the stems there seemed to be a movement wait a minute i cried and molly cotton checked the horse but did not stop while i leaned forward and scanned the lilies carefully | 14.6 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000024 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 2,550.42 | 2,568.21 | and live several months often until quite heavy frosts have fallen one can admire to fullest extent the complicated organism wondrous colouring and miraculous life processes in the evolution of a moth but that is all their faces express nothing their attitudes tell no story | 17.79 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000025 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_09_porter_64kb.mp3 | 265.77 | 281.28 | the only way i know to photograph them is to focus on some favourable spot mark the place your plate covers in length and width and then do your best to coax your subjects in range if they can be persuaded to walk they will open their wings to a greater or less degree | 15.51 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000026 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_10_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,011.86 | 1,030.16 | these moths are the gamins of their family and love the streets and lights at night under an arc light at wabash indiana i once picked up as beautiful a specimen of polyphemus as i ever saw and the following day a friend told me that several had been captured the night before in the heart of town | 18.3 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000027 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 150.23 | 163 | still it was raining and the ditch was wet and deep i am sorry we did not stop i said half to myself i can't help feeling that was a moth there is where youth in all its impetuosity helped me | 12.77 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000028 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 157.83 | 171.49 | the catocalae family the fore-wings of which resemble those of several members of the sphinginae in colour and when they take flight the back ones flash out colours that run the gamut from palest to deepest reds yellows and browns | 13.66 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000029 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 2,511.8 | 2,531.07 | it was honey yellow had antennae long as its extremely long body the abdomen of which was curved and the segments set together so as to appear notched the wings were transparent and the insect it seems is especially designed to attack polyphemus caterpillars and help check a progress that otherwise might become devasta... | 19.27 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000030 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_04_porter_64kb.mp3 | 444.36 | 457.46 | the thorax and abdomen were yellow and the legs heliotrope the antennae were heliotrope fine threadlike and closely pressed to the head the eyes were smaller than those of cecropia and very close together | 13.1 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000031 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 753.29 | 766.31 | so my mother and the cook comforted me the remainder scattered suddenly it was years before i knew why and i was a shakespearean student before i caught the point to their frequently calling me little lady | 13.02 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000032 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,328.57 | 1,341.63 | sometimes the eggs have a smooth surface again they may be ridged or like hammered brass or silver the shells are very thin and break easily at one side a place can be detected where the fertilizing fluid enters | 13.06 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000033 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_07_porter_64kb.mp3 | 561.55 | 577.4 | after years of fruitless effort i made one passable snapshot early in july while the light was sufficiently strong that a printable picture could be had by intensifying the plate and one good time exposure as a celeus with half-folded wings clambered over a hollyhock | 15.85 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000034 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,334.36 | 1,345.84 | of course molly cotton stood beside with a net in one hand to guard and an umbrella in the other to shade the moth except at the instant of exposure but she made no movement indicative of flight | 11.48 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000035 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,900.02 | 1,914.86 | i have examined them repeatedly and carefully i can find not the slightest trace of spinning or adhesion other than by force with one of these balls lifted and divided we decided what happened underground by detaining a caterpillar on the surface | 14.84 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000036 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,341.63 | 1,352.19 | the coming caterpillar begins to develop at once and emerges in from six to thirty days with the exception of a few eggs placed in the fall that produce during the following spring | 10.56 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000037 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,352.19 | 1,368.87 | the length of the egg period differs with species and somewhat with the same moths according to suitable or unfavourable placing and climatic conditions do not accept the experience of any one if you have eggs you very much desire to be productive of the caterpillars of rare moths | 16.68 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000038 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 2,531.07 | 2,550.42 | among the moths that do not feed the year of their evolution is divided into about seven days for the life of the moth from fifteen to thirty for the eggs from five to six weeks for the caterpillar and the remainder of the time in the pupa stage the rule differs with feeding moths only in that after mating and egg plac... | 19.35 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000039 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_13_porter_64kb.mp3 | 294.62 | 311.45 | during the first exposure modesta was allowed to place and poise herself as seemed natural for a second i used the brush on her gently and coaxed her wings into spreading a little wider than was natural these positions gave every evidence of being pleasing and yet i was not satisfied | 16.83 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000040 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_06_porter_64kb.mp3 | 500.28 | 518.96 | the moths emerge on the ground and climb these trees to unfold and harden their wings the females usually remain where they are and the males are attracted to them if undisturbed they do not fly until after mating and egg depositing are accomplished the males take wing as soon as dusk of the first night arrives after t... | 18.68 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000041 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_01_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,159.35 | 1,174.66 | he has carried to me many of my rarest cocoons and found in their native haunts several moths needed to complete the book it is to be hoped that these wonderful days afield have brought their own compensation for kindness such as his i never can reward adequately | 15.31 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000042 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 121.14 | 132.64 | is there a moth that colour asked molly cotton yes i replied there is an orange-brown species but it is rare i never have seen a living one so we passed the lilies | 11.5 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000043 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_11_porter_64kb.mp3 | 544.96 | 561.51 | that month i did not average two hours of sleep in a night and had less in the daytime i not only arose betimes but at any time i heard a scratching and tugging moth working to enter the world and when its head was out i was up and ready with note-book and camera | 16.55 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000044 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 2,484.15 | 2,498.91 | i never have found a pupa out of doors but this is a ground caterpillar sometimes the caterpillar has been stung and bad an egg placed in its skin by a parasite before pupation in such case the pupa is destroyed by the developing fly | 14.76 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000045 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 704.53 | 715.78 | he was horrified when the deacon picked it up and demonstrated how harmless it was this is difficult to believe but it was a third regalis and came into my possession at night again | 11.25 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000046 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_05_porter_64kb.mp3 | 188.32 | 206.45 | and apparently some water birds had no tail or at least a very short one that seemed plausible but still i watched this small and most interesting bird of all this bird that no one ever had seen taking a bath or perching and whose nest never had been found by a person so familiar with all outdoors as my father | 18.13 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000047 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_10_porter_64kb.mp3 | 954.73 | 965.98 | the cocoons of these i had raised were whiter than those of the free caterpillars and did not have the leaves fastened on the outside but were woven in a nest of leaves fastened together by threads | 11.25 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000048 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,928.69 | 1,945.45 | there never is a trace of spinning or acid ejected in the sand buckets when the change is completed there begins a violent twisting and squirming the caterpillar skin opens in a straight line just behind the head on the back and by working with the pointed abdomen the pupa case emerges | 16.76 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000049 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 791.41 | 809.14 | and they can turn them back and fold them together in the fly position thus enabling them to force their way into nectar bearing flowers of trumpet shape the abdomen is velvet soft to the touch and divided into rings called segments these being so joined that this member can be turned and twisted at will | 17.73 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000050 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_06_porter_64kb.mp3 | 537.89 | 548.21 | few of these gaudily painted ones have the chance to die naturally for both birds and squirrels prey upon them tearing away the delicate wings and feasting on the big pulpy bodies | 10.32 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000051 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_08_porter_64kb.mp3 | 981.37 | 996.79 | producing the most beautiful effect of life but failing to display her striking markings this is the one disadvantage in photographing moths from life you secure lifelike effects but sometimes you are forced to sacrifice their wonderful decorations | 15.42 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000052 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_05_porter_64kb.mp3 | 206.45 | 223.61 | then came a second discovery it could curl its beak in a little coil when leaving a flower a few days later i saw distinctly that it had four wings but i could discover no feet i became a rank doubter and when these convincing proofs were carried to my father he also grew dubious | 17.16 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000053 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 794.12 | 804.12 | so the farmer took me to our gate i thanked him as politely as i knew how and kissed his wife and the fat baby in payment for their kindness for i was very grateful | 10 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000054 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,958.91 | 1,969.46 | if a male he emerges near ten in the forenoon and flies at dusk in search of a mate as the females are very heavy with eggs they usually remain where they are | 10.55 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000055 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,986.53 | 2,001.11 | their outline can be traced through the shell on which they make their first meal when they emerge female cecropas average about three hundred and fifty eggs each that they sometimes place singly and again string in rows or in captivity pile in heaps | 14.58 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000056 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_14_porter_64kb.mp3 | 551.23 | 563.35 | that was the mast delicate and loveliest colour effect i ever have seen on marking of flower bird or animal for the first time in all my experience with moths the female was less than the male | 12.12 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000057 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_04_porter_64kb.mp3 | 493.61 | 513.11 | they were nearly half an inch long and were yellow with black lines they began the task of eating until they reached the pupa state by turning on their shells and devouring all of them to the glue by which they were fastened they were given their choice of oak alder sumac elm cherry and hickory the majority of them see... | 19.5 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000058 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_08_porter_64kb.mp3 | 404.73 | 419.35 | the thought of it makes me want to hide my head it was six years before i found a living moth or saw another caterpillar of that species a few days later while watching with a camera focused on the nest of a blackbird in mrs corson's woods east of town | 14.62 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000059 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,344 | 1,361.5 | well might it have been a dream but that the cecropia clinging to the meshes of the lace slowly opening and closing its wings to strengthen them for flight could be nothing but a delightful reality a few days later in the valley of the wood robin while searching for its nest i found a large cocoon | 17.5 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000060 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_06_porter_64kb.mp3 | 489.93 | 500.28 | luna hunters can secure material from which to learn this exquisite creature of night by searching for the moths on the trunks of oak walnut hickory birch or willow during the month of june | 10.35 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000061 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_14_porter_64kb.mp3 | 524.6 | 536.26 | a white stripe ran down each side of the abdomen touched with a dot of brownish red wine colour on the rings the under part was pinkish wine crossed with a narrow white line at each segment | 11.66 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000062 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,368.87 | 1,382.06 | after six days take a peep every day if you would be on the safe side with many species the shells are transparent and for the last few days before emergence the growth of the little caterpillars can be watched through them | 13.19 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000063 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 182.48 | 201.29 | as when my father cut down a tree and hewed it into a beam i would spend hours sitting so immovably among the flowers of our garden that the butterflies would mistake me for a plant and alight on my head and hands while i strove to conceive the greatness of a being who could devise and colour all those different butter... | 18.81 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000064 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_10_porter_64kb.mp3 | 383.37 | 400.92 | close time for emergence i became very uneasy because the conservatory was warm so i moved them to my sleeping room the coolest in the cabin where a fireplace two big windows and an outside door always open provide natural atmospheric conditions and where i would be sure to see them every day | 17.55 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000065 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 132.64 | 150.23 | a very peculiar thing is that when one grows intensely interested in a subject and works over it a sort of instinct an extra sense as it were is acquired three rods away i became certain i had seen something move so strongly the conviction swept over me that we had passed a moth | 17.59 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000066 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_08_porter_64kb.mp3 | 347.78 | 360.83 | it had a little flat head that could be drawn inside the body like a turtle and on the sides were oblique touches of salmon something that appeared to be a place for a horn could be seen and a yellow tubercle was surrounded by a black line | 13.05 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000067 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 743.97 | 754.09 | the foremost pair of this formidable array turned front over the face all the others back and the outside six of the ten were not quite the length of the largest ones | 10.12 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000068 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 109.68 | 121.14 | what i thought i saw move appeared to be a dry lily bloom of an orange-red colour that had fallen and lodged on the grasses against a stalk it's only a dead lily i said drive on | 11.46 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000069 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_12_porter_64kb.mp3 | 354.49 | 369.79 | the back wings were the same only the hairs at the base were lighter red and the band at the edge deeper in colour the head of the male seemed sharper the shoulders stronger olive the wings more pointed at the apex where the female's were a little rounded | 15.3 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000070 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_09_porter_64kb.mp3 | 219.43 | 235.26 | bands neogama another member of this family is a degree smaller than amatrix but of the same shape the fore-wings are covered with broken lines of different colours the groundwork grey with gold flushings the lines and dots of the border very like the sweetheart's | 15.83 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000071 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 685.75 | 704.53 | two days later andrew idlewine a friend to my work came to the deacon with a box he said that he thought maybe i would like to take a picture of the fellow inside and if i did he wanted a copy and he wished he knew what the name of it was he had found it on a butternut tree and used great care in taking it lest it horn... | 18.78 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000072 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_08_porter_64kb.mp3 | 923.74 | 943.36 | the eggs laid by my female never hatched so i do not know this caterpillar in its early stages from experience but i had enough experience with it in my early stages that i do not care if i never raise one no doubt it attains maturity by the same series of moults as the others and its life history is quite similar | 19.62 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000073 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_13_porter_64kb.mp3 | 243 | 261.83 | he secured her in his hat and hurried to me raymond's hat has had many wonderful things in it besides his head and his pockets are always lumpy with boxes although perfect she had mated deposited her eggs and was declining all she wanted was to be left alone and she would sit with wings widespread wherever placed | 18.83 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000074 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 151.13 | 165.49 | butterflies have changed their habits since then they fly so high they are all among the treetops now they used to flit around the cinnamon pinks larkspur ragged-robins and tiger lilies within easy reach of little fingers every day | 14.36 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000075 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_15_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,287.21 | 1,298.48 | and brought the pair safely to me several beautiful studies of them were made into one of which i also introduced my last moth to emerge in order to show the males in two different positions | 11.27 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000076 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 766.31 | 778.08 | after such an experience it was not probable that i would risk crushing a butterfly to tie a bonnet on my head it probably would be down my back half the time anyway it usually was | 11.77 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000077 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 804.12 | 819.1 | i was so tired i scarcely could set down the jar and straighten my cramped arms when i had the opportunity i had expected my family to be delighted over my treasure but they exhibited an astonishing indifference and were far more concerned over the state of my blistered face | 14.98 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000078 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_03_porter_64kb.mp3 | 1,969.46 | 1,986.53 | after mating they begin almost at once to deposit their eggs and do not take flight until they have finished the eggs are round having a flat top that becomes slightly depressed as they dry they are of pearl colour with a touch of brown changing to greyish as the tiny caterpillars develop | 17.07 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000079 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 773.98 | 791.41 | this provision is to enable them to cling firmly to flower or twig while feeding to help them to lift the body higher and walk dextrously in searching for food it is also noticeable that these moths have for their size comparatively much longer slenderer wings than the non feeders | 17.43 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000080 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_07_porter_64kb.mp3 | 528.22 | 542.4 | i merely made what i considered a beautiful likeness and this was so appreciated whenever shown that i went further and painted it in water colours since moth pictures have accumulated and moth history has engrossed me with its intense interest | 14.18 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000081 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 729.14 | 747.4 | a stiff bunch of bristles serves the same purpose in most females while some have a lobe extending from the fore-wing as long as the costa remains unbroken to preserve balance a moth that has become entangled in bushes or suffered rough treatment from birds can fly with badly damaged wing surfaces | 18.26 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000082 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_08_porter_64kb.mp3 | 971.19 | 981.37 | but the female was a perverse little body and though i tried patiently and repeatedly she would not lower her wings full width she climbed around with them three-fourths spread | 10.18 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000083 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_14_porter_64kb.mp3 | 580.85 | 597.86 | of every food offered the youngsters seemed to prefer lilac leaves i remembered that they had passed the winter wrapped in these dangling from their twigs and that the under wings of the male and much of the female bore a flushing of colour that was lilac for what else is red wine veiled with white | 17.01 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000084 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_12_porter_64kb.mp3 | 369.79 | 380.03 | the top of the abdomen had the middle band of such strong red that it threw the same colour over the bands above and below it giving to the whole moth a strong red appearance when on wing | 10.24 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000085 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 118.61 | 128.96 | cynthia beautiful in shades of olive green sprinkled with black crossed by bands of pinkish lilac and bearing crescents partly yellow the remainder transparent | 10.35 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000086 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 171.49 | 184.2 | crossed by wide circling bands of black with these occasionally the black so predominates that it appears as if the wing were black and the bands of other colour all of them are so exquisitely beautiful | 12.71 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000087 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_10_porter_64kb.mp3 | 965.98 | 978.76 | polyphemus moths are night flyers and do not feed i have tried to tell how beautiful they are with indifferent success and they are common with me since i learned them find their cocoons easiest to discover | 12.78 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000088 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_11_porter_64kb.mp3 | 490.18 | 509.94 | i plead guilty to the use of an anesthetic in this chapter only to show the tongue extension of carolina because it is the extremest with which i am acquainted and to coaxing wide wing sweep with the camel'shair brush otherwise either the fact that my subjects are too close emergence ever to have taken flight or sex at... | 19.76 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000089 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_08_porter_64kb.mp3 | 954.29 | 971.19 | the following season i had the good fortune to secure a male and female io at the same time and by persistence induced them to pose for me on an apple branch there was no trouble in securing the male as i desired him with wings folded showing the spots lining and flushing of colour | 16.9 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000090 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_05_porter_64kb.mp3 | 150.84 | 170.53 | he explained how a bird in close quarters has power to relax its muscles and let its tail go in order to save its body when under the paw of a cat or caught in a trap that was satisfactory but i thought it must have been a spry cat to get even a paw on the lady bird for frequently humming-birds could be seen perching b... | 19.69 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000091 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_01_porter_64kb.mp3 | 527.18 | 537.93 | possessing such an imposing array of names there should be no necessity to add to them these men have impaled moths and dissected magnified and located brain heart and nerves | 10.75 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000092 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_02_porter_64kb.mp3 | 760.63 | 773.98 | luna has beautiful lavender legs imperialis yellow and regalis red-brown the day flying feeding group have longer slenderer legs covered with shorter down and carry more elaborate markings | 13.35 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000093 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_12_porter_64kb.mp3 | 305.51 | 323.35 | the head was small and pointed with big eyes a long tongue clubbed antennae and a blood-red nose the thorax above was covered with long silky olive-green hair the top of the abdomen had half an inch band of warm tan colour then a quarter of an inch band of velvety red wine | 17.84 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000094 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_04_porter_64kb.mp3 | 426.06 | 444.36 | the top of the head was covered with long silken hairs of heliotrope then a band of yellow the upper abdomen was strongly shaded with heliotrope almost to the extreme tip the lower sides of the wings were yellow at the base the spots showing through but not the bands and only the faintest touches of the mottling | 18.3 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000095 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_10_porter_64kb.mp3 | 978.76 | 992.16 | through the fall and winter when riding on trains i see them dangling from wayside thorn bushes once while taking a walk with raymond in late november he located one on a thorn tree in a field beside the road but he has the eyes of an indian | 13.4 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000096 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_11_porter_64kb.mp3 | 509.94 | 529.44 | if you do not discover love running through every line of this text and see it shining from the face of each study and painting you do not read aright and your eyes need attention again and again to the protests of my family i have made answer-to work we love we rise betimes and go to it with delight | 19.5 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000097 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_07_porter_64kb.mp3 | 577.4 | 590.28 | possibly hunting a spot on which to deposit an egg or two the hollyhock painting of this chapter is from this study the flowers were easy but it required a second trial to do justice to the complicated markings of the moth | 12.88 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000098 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/moths_limberlost_jms_librivox/mothsoflimberlost_09_porter_64kb.mp3 | 235.26 | 250.06 | the back wings are pure gold almost reddish with dark brownish black bands and yellow borders the top of the abdomen is a grey-gold colour underneath the markings are nearly the same as amatrix but a gold flush suffuses the moth | 14.8 | 688 | 1786 | chunk_0140_row_7000099 |
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