Tent Caterpillars. 



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not many of them will live through the three applications above 

 specified, if they are thoroughly made, and the same statements 

 will apply to the forest tent caterpillars. 



The Life-Story of the Tent Caterpillars. 



In order to combat an insect pest the most effectively, one 

 should know its life-story. The story of the lives of the apple 

 and forest tent caterpillars maj^ be briefly told by the aid of the 

 pictures in figure 102. These 

 two tent caterpillars are dis- 

 tinct kinds of insects but are 

 very nearly related to each 

 other and each has practically 

 the same general life-history, 

 differing only in some details 

 of habits. The story of the 

 Apple -tree Tent Caterpillar 

 {Clisiocampa a??ierica7ia) has 

 been interestingly told in the 

 Teacher's Leaflet No. 5, which 

 anyone can get free by apply- 

 ing to the Bureau of Nature- 

 Study, College of Agriculture, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



At the date of writing (last 

 week in May), the forest tent 

 caterpillars {Clisiocampa dis- 

 stria) are nearly full grown ; 

 the picture at c in figure 102 

 was recently taken from life. 

 In about two weeks, or early 

 in June, the caterpillars will 

 be seen wandering about seek- 

 ing a suitable place to undergo their wonderful transfor- 

 mations. They may select a leaf on or under the tree on 

 which they fed, as did the one shown in the frontispiece, or some 

 angle in your house or rail-fence may afford a more suitable 

 place. Here the caterpillar will begin to spin about itself a white 



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102. — The life- story of the Forest Tent Cater- 

 pillar, m, male moth ; f female ; p,pupa ; 

 e, egg-ring recently laid ; g, hatched egg- 

 ring ; c, caterpillar. Moths and caterpillars 

 are natural size, and eggs and pupa are 

 slightly enlarged. 



