This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...themselves are rather slender, naked, whitish worms, with blackish heads. The tent seems to be their chief protection against birds or other enemies. The extending of the folds of the tent seems to be done under the cover of darkness, the larva working together to accomplish the common end. They thus escape the eager ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...themselves are rather slender, naked, whitish worms, with blackish heads. The tent seems to be their chief protection against birds or other enemies. The extending of the folds of the tent seems to be done under the cover of darkness, the larva working together to accomplish the common end. They thus escape the eager eyes and pointed bills of birds, and in part at least the sharpened ovipositors of parasites. To a considerable extent the feeding is also done in the darker hours. Somewhere near the centre of the tent the caterpillars make, when full grown, a compact mass of silken web intermingled with the dry particles of excreta. After webbing themselves together thus, each larva completes a tough cocoon, within which it changes to a pupa. About two weeks later the pupa work their way out of the cocoons and through the outer folds of the tent. Here the pupa remain; presently the pupal shell splits open at the front end, and the moths come forth. In this case the tent is evidently of decided value as a protection against enemies. I have seen no indication that birds reach the larva, and evidently there is little chance for predaceous insects to get at them. They do suffer, however, from the attacks of parasites; but for the most part these parasites are species having long ovipositors, by means of which eggs can be deposited through the layers of the tent in or upon the larva or pupa. A somewhat similar type of shelter tent is that made by the fall web-worm. These insects do not hatch from the eggs until about midsummer. They at once begin feeding on the green surface of the leaves, and spin over themselves a filmy silken web under which they always remain. As they grow they extend the web, carrying it over all of the leaves they attack, so that a whole bra...
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W I Beecroft. Very Good+ 8vo, J B Lippincott Company, 1913, First Edition green cloth hardcover, top edge gilt, spine slightly tanned, owner's gift dedication, book is clean, illustrated, 309 pages.
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