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FRUIT INSECTS 



The winter is spent 

 in the egg stage, al- 

 though the embryo is 

 fully developed in the 

 fall. The eggs are 

 elongate, thimble- 

 shaped, about 2T ii^ch 

 long and are laid in 

 masses of over 300 to 

 400, usually encircling 

 a small branch as a 

 broad band (Fig. 122). 

 The whole egg-mass is 

 covered by a brownish 

 gluey froth, which 

 it from the 

 About the 

 time the first buds open 

 the eggs hatch and the 

 young larvie begin to feed on the 

 opening leaves. The larvse are 



Fig. 122. 

 — Egg-mass 

 of the apple- 

 tree tent-cat- protects 

 erpillar cut , 



open to show Weather. 



eggs. 



Fr 



124. — Cucoous of the uppk'-trec 

 tent-caterpillar ( X f ) . 



Fig. 123. — Full-grown apple- 

 tree tent-caterpillars (x 1^). 



social, and all those from a single egg-cluster remain together 

 and soon begin a tsilken nest. Sometimes when two egg-masses 



