Show BUTTERFLIES ON MAIN STREET I Myriads of Visitors From Southern Fields Swarm the Business I Thoroughfare Millions of brown butterflies flitted up Main and State streets yesterday toward to-ward the hills and seemed In their fiight to be oblivious of street cars teams and pedestrians which crowded the right of way The little Insects seemed to be In no particular hUrry and flapped their mottled wings as lazily on Is their wont when flitting from daisy to dandelion In their native fields The sight of the flimsy flyers reminded many a man of his boyhood days down on the farm and when one of them fluttered too close to the sidewalk side-walk there was a temptation to give chase By common Impulse every one of the myriad butterflies was headed north There was no regularity in the formatIon forma-tion of the flight the line being straggling strag-gling a few in one bunch and hundreds In another and each individual seem ingly occupied In his own progress Through tho busy parts of the streets the butterflies maintained a height of r from six to a dozen feet but after passIng pass-Ing Brigham street they came close to I the ground Quite a colony of them flew over the Temple grounds wall and took a rest on the foliage within Now and then a bloodthirsty English sparrow spar-row dipped Into the flock and caught abu a-bu tterfi Several persons were heard to wonder whence came the insects and whither they were bound Prof Orson Howard the naturalist of the State University did not see the flight but when it was described to him said that it might be either a local phenomenon or a drifting of a large number of butterflies with the wind This particular butterfly he said is a common one In this locality and untold numbers of them are hatched in the meadows south of town It Is probable he said that they were drifting with the wind but an impulsive im-pulsive flight in a certain direction is common with them Possibly they were coming Into the city to feed upon the tree blossoms The life of these butterflies is three or four weeks They will lay their eggs and die and another crop will appear later in the season Prof Marcus E Jones who was asked for an opinion to where the myriads of butterflies came from and where they were going said My opinion Is that hey came from southern Utah where at this season of the year the butterfly Is about at the height of development Insects oC all kinds are abundant this year and whenever this Is the CllscJ 1 Is natural for them to spread out over a large territory in search of food I have not seen the butterflies and therefore am not able to say definitely whether they came from near by or from southern Utah but the fact that they came In such numbers thus early In the season leads me to believe that they arc from Dixie Reports from all the other streets running north and south tell of a but terfly brigade equal to the winged army on Main street |