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CATERPII?I.AR AND THE MOTH

the caterpillars go back to the surface of the tent, usually by eight-thirty or nine o'clock. Here they do a little spin- ning on its walls, but no strenuous work is attempted at

FIG. 147. Mature tent caterpillars feeding at night this rime, and generally within hall an hour the entire fam]ly is reassembled inside the tent. Most frequently the crowd collects firs't in the shady side of the outermost story, but as the morning advances the caterpillars seek [?71 ]


INSECTS