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THOSE PUZZLING 

 COCOON CLUSTERS 



October soth 



HEY may be found now almost 

 any day in a short stroll through 

 the rowen fields. I have picked 

 over fifty clusters in one short 

 walk across an October meadow. They 

 are generally attached in a circular clus- 

 ter about a grass stem, thirty to fifty in 

 number, of the size shown in the illus- 

 tration, and may be either white or 

 pale sulphur yellow in color. To the 

 casual observer they appear like tiny ob- 

 long eggs, but they are in truth firmly 

 woven silken cocoons, and though we 

 may discover hundreds of them in 

 the grass, there are few observers 

 who would be likely to guess 

 their origin, for it is a rare find 

 to catch the spinner at its work. 

 Such a discovery would indeed 

 be a surprise to most of us, as 

 will be seen. 



