Rich County Reaper | 1929-05-10 | Page 5 | Pursuit of Moth Hazardous Task

hilti sil tI f t pursuit of MO moth th I 1 t hazardous task i 2 P pursuit n r s u I 1 t 0 of f V t e moths and butterflies in the S it tropical jungles of ecuador Is a Z hazardous occupation according to W judson coxey member of the philadelphia academy of 4 natural sciences who returned from a protracted expedition 44 cotey told of meeting bird i earlna spiders the size of din S ner plates and killing venomous qa y reptiles in the haunts of rare ta and beautiful butterflies butterf Hea one of I 1 X the spiders encountered coxey cosey ir said lie ile was forced to shoot SI with a revolver as it was about T T to spring ngat at him Z rattlesnakes which give no warning when attacking were T brought back by the scientist j they are known as ecco or 4 X snakes because of their X t m markings and have rattles X which make no noise X X