NATURE NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 21 (Supplement)

NATURE NOTES.

] THE PURPLE EMPEROR BUTTERFLY. This beautiful butterfly is round fix Inf I around the tops or tho tail oak trees in J .southern England It likes to Tce.l on carrion. The female is larger and blark-I-n brown instead or purple. The caterpillar is marked with yellow oblique lines. . —Agnes Washer (IS), j THE DUMB GIRAFFE. Did you know that a grralTe the only really dumb animal In the world.' He has a head twenty Teet above the ground which enables him t eat the leaves of tail trees (bis only food) m cumrort, (Copied./ —Kreya Marshall (14). THE GLOW WORM. The glow-worm is not a worm but g beetle. The bright light is produced by the full-grown wingless remale. The male Is about half an Inch and the j female about five-eighths of an inch long, —Lorraine Reutoul. THE CARRIER OF THE AIR. The pigeon Is the faltnrul carrier or th« air, who with a message tied to Us leg will carry It to its home. These birds have an amazing sense or direction and will find their way home over a great war to carry Important messages The eggs are the size of a pullet's egg and distance. They were used chiefly in the are the same shape and colour. —Muriel Delaney. THE MOTHER BNAIL. One sunny Saturday morning a« nr. mother and 1 were gathering strawberries from our small strawberry patch 1 noticed a huge snail lying on the damp ground underneath a large strawberry le.ar. Lifting It by its shell I tried to raise It rrotu the ground, but to mv surprise I saw that its tail was poked into the ground. After pulling geritlv Tor a few seconds I succeeded in getting its tall out and in the place where it, tall had been were some tiny white rgg«. My mother bought a kettle of boiling water and poured It on to the egg- so as they wouldn’t hatch and eat anv more strawberries. tnrortun*tely for the mother snail a drop or water was splashed ou to her tall and she scuttled awai ajuiost the leavw, Johnston,