Tent Millers 



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thinly covered with short, soft hair. Some time in 

 June the caterpillars leave their nest and travel 

 restlessly, often creeping on one's clothes and not 

 infrequently entering the house in search of shel- 

 tered crevices where they can spin their cocoons 

 (Fig. 134). 





Tentmaker's sleepins-bag under 

 the edge of a sliingle. 



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The cocoons are made of loosely woven silk 

 plastered over v»'ith a thin paste wliich when dried 

 is like lime, so when one mashes a cocoon the paste 

 turns into a dust of a pale yellow color. Two 

 weeks longer are spent in the clnysalis state before 



