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the bud as the caterpillars do, a row of holes will 

 show when the little leaves unfold." 



When the caterpillars were about half grown, they 

 left the bud, traveled down the stalk, and ate into 

 it near the ground. When they became full-grown 



FIG. 65. "Left the stalks through the openings they had cut." 



each cut a round opening through the outer wall of 

 the stalk, and after plugging it with chewed pith 

 from the inside, crawled to a small chamber pre- 

 pared in the pith and transformed to a chrysalis. 

 About two weeks later the moths came from the 



