. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. Fig. 238.~Female Moth of Apple-tree Tent-caterpillar on Cocoon, natu- ral size. Fig. 239.—a Forest Tent-cater- pillar, natural size. orchard. The tent serves as a home from which the cater- pillars issue at feeding times and forage over the tree, spin- ning a silken thread wherever they go. When they get their growth early in June, they find some secluded cranny in a near-by fence or elsewhere and spin about themselves a coarse, white, silken cocoon i
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. Fig. 238.~Female Moth of Apple-tree Tent-caterpillar on Cocoon, natu- ral size. Fig. 239.—a Forest Tent-cater- pillar, natural size. orchard. The tent serves as a home from which the cater- pillars issue at feeding times and forage over the tree, spin- ning a silken thread wherever they go. When they get their growth early in June, they find some secluded cranny in a near-by fence or elsewhere and spin about themselves a coarse, white, silken cocoon intermixed with a yellow powder (Fig. 238). In this cocoon they change to pupae, and finally trans- form to reddish-brown moths (Fig. 238) in about three weeks. The moths emerge and lay their peculiar rings of eggs (Fig. 237) around the smaller branches early in July; each egg- mass contains about two hundred eggs, which are covered by. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob); Wood, William H. S. New York, Orange Judd
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