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My Studio Neighbors
·
W. Hamilton Gibson
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My
other
remaining
claimant
for
notice,
shown
upon
the
plant
at
the
right
margin
of
page
60,
is
a
modest
and
inconspicuous
individual,
and
might
readily
escape
attention,
save
that
a
more
intent
observer
might
possibly
wonder
at
the
queer
little
tubular
pinkish
blossoms
upon
the
plant--a
rush--while
a
keen-eyed
botanist
would
instantly
challenge
the
right
of
a
juncus
to
such
a
tubular
blossom
at
all,
especially
at
seed-time,
and
thus
investigate.
But
the
entomologist
will
probably
classify
this
peculiar
blossom
at
a
glance,
from
its
family
resemblance
to
other
specimens
with
which
he
is
familiar.
He
will
know,
for
instance,
that
this
is
a
sort
of
peripatetic
or
nomadic
blossom
that
will
travel
about
on
the
plant,
with
which
its
open
end
will
always
remain
in
close
contact.
Many
of
the
individuals
are
seen
apparently
growing
upright
out
of
the
rounded
seed-pod
of
the
rush;
and
when
the
pink
or
speckled
tube
finally
concludes
to
take
up
its
travels,
a
clean
round
hole
marks
the
spot
of
its
tarrying,
and
an
empty
globular
shell
tells
the
secret
of
this
brief
attachment.
For
this
petal-like
tube,
so
commonly
to
be
seen
upon
the
little
rush
of
our
paths,
is,
in
truth,
a
tiny
silken
case
enclosing
the
body
of
a
small
larva--a
diminutive
psychid,
or
sack-bearer,
which
I
have
not
chanced
to
see
described.
Only
the
head
and
six
prolegs
of
the
occupant
ever
emerge
from
its
case.
Dragging
its
house
along
upon
the
plant,
it
attaches
the
open
mouth
of
the
sack
close
to
the
green
seed-pod,
after
which
the
shell
is
gnawed
through
at
the
point
of
contact,
and
the
young
seeds
devoured
at
pleasure,
when
a
new
journey
is
made
to
the
next
capsule,
and
thus
until
the
maturity
of
the
larva.
At
this
time
the
case
is
about
half
an
inch
in
length.
It
is
now
firmly
attached
to
the
plant.
The
opening
is
completely
spun
over
with
silk,
and
the
case
becomes
a
cocoon
for
the
winter;
and
a
few
of
these
September
cocoons
are
well
worth
gathering,
if
only
to
see
the
queer
little
moth
which
will
emerge
from
them
the
following
spring.
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