. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 886 Rural School Leaflet. Eggs (enlarged) to deceive hungry birds. In fact, few birds, except the chickadees, find these eggs. This busy midget makes it his business to carefully examine twigs in his search for insect eggs, and so he has discovered this mother-moth's egg basket. From these eggs hatch tiny caterpillars with large heads. The first thi
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 886 Rural School Leaflet. Eggs (enlarged) to deceive hungry birds. In fact, few birds, except the chickadees, find these eggs. This busy midget makes it his business to carefully examine twigs in his search for insect eggs, and so he has discovered this mother-moth's egg basket. From these eggs hatch tiny caterpillars with large heads. The first thing they do is to have breakfast from apple buds or new leaves; then they climb down the twig, the whole family together, to the nearest fork of the branch that offers a convenient support for their home, and there they begin to spin their web, or tent. The silk gland is within the body of the caterpillar, but it has its opening near the lower lip, so that the caterpillars seem to spin silk from their mouths; the spiders, on the contrary, have their spinnerets on the rear end of the body. The web of the tent caterpillar is at first a little triangular affair, consisting of irregular sheets of silk between which the tiny caterpillars can be protected from the rain, just as cozily as we are in our tents when we are out camping. There they stay during the nights and on dark and stormy days; only on pleasant days do the caterpillars go out to get their food, which consists of the leaves. And wherever he goes each little caterpillar spins a thread of silk so that he has no trouble in finding his way back home. Each caterpillar grows for a time until his stiff, horny skin is too tight for comfort. He then retires into the web and sheds the old skin, and afterward goes back to his business of eating in a new elastic skin that gives him plenty of room; but this, too, hardens and in turn must be shed, for this is the way all young insects grow. Each time the new skin may be a little diff
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