. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 238.—Female Moth of Apple-treeTent-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 theirgrowth early in June, they find some secluded cranny in anear-by fence or elsewhere and spin about themselves a coarse,white, silken cocoon intermixed with a yellow powder (). In this cocoon they change to pupae, and finally trans-form to reddish-brown mo
. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 238.—Female Moth of Apple-treeTent-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 theirgrowth early in June, they find some secluded cranny in anear-by fence or elsewhere and spin about themselves a coarse,white, silken cocoon intermixed with a yellow powder (). In this cocoon they change to pupae, and finally trans-form to reddish-brown moths (Fig. 238) in about three moths emerge and lay their peculiar rings of eggs () around the smaller branches earlj^ in July; each egg-mass contains about two hundred eggs, which are covered by DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS. 175 a vesicular, water-proof varnish. There is thus but one broodof the caterpillars each year, and by far the largest portion ofthe insects life is spent in the Q%<g, usually from July until
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