Fig. 6. 



Apple-Tree .Tent-Caterpillar. 



d, a small tent ; e, full grown caterpiliar,- 



a, Male moth; 6, cocoous; c, belt of eggs 

 all natural size. — After Comstock. 



The female moth, Fig. 7, lays her eggs, about three hundred in 

 Dumbei', in a belt, Fig. 5, c and 6, c, around the twigs of apple, cherry 

 and several other kinds of trees, covering them with a thick coating of 

 dark brown glutinous matter which probably serves as a protection 

 during the winter. 



Fig. 7. Apple-Tree Tent-Caterpillar. 



Female moth, natural size.— After Riley. 



The following spring, when the buds begin to swell, the eggs hatch 

 and the young caterpillars seek some fork of a branch where they 

 spin their tent and remain when not feeding. They are about one- 



