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fall. A common web-forming caterpillar is the ordinary tent 

 caterpillar which makes the large ungainly webs in the angles of 

 branches in the spring. Many of the most troublesome insects 

 are easily combated if you go about it the right way by spray- 

 ing, as Prof. Munson has mentioned ; and often there are other 

 ways equally practicable. With the tussock moth, for instance, 

 it is an easy matter to remove the egg covered cocoons during 



Egg cluster of antique tussock moth. 

 Caterpillar of white marked tussock moth. 



the winter. You have all the winter to do it in. In the case 

 of the webs of the tent caterpillar, it is not difficult to saturate 

 the unsightly web with some strong alkaline solution, strong 

 soapsuds or kerosene emulsion or something of the kind, taking 

 care to do it in the cool part of the day when the caterpillars 

 are in the web, either early in the morning or toward evening, 

 or on cool, cloudy days. 



We have another web-forming insect which is very common 

 throughout the State, and found very commonly upon orchard 

 tree.s, the fall web worm, and that makes another large, ungainly 

 web, not at all like the nest of the brown-tail moth, and dififering 

 from that of the tent caterpillar in containing skeletons of 

 leaves, for the fall web worm encloses the leaves it eats instead 

 of going out of its web for food as the tent caterpillar does. 



