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Show Butterflies and Moths Butterflies and moths employ the short time assigned to them In a variety of ways, writes Prof. J. F. Furbay, Ph, D., in the Missouri Farmer. They never have the responsibility re-sponsibility of rearing their families, fam-ilies, as do many other animals. They lay their eggs and this Is the end of their duty to their offspring. The only precaution they take is to lay these eggs on the kind of food, or near the kind of food, on which the caterpillars will want to feed when they hatch from the eggs. The rest of their short life is spent In quest of sweet foods among the flowers, or in quest of their mates. |