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Insect Architecture. 



and the moth (Notodonta ziczac) from May to July in the 

 following year (see cut, p. 151). 



Beside those caterpillars which live solitary in the folds 

 of a leaf, there are others which associate, employing their 

 united powers to draw the leaves of the plants they feed 

 upon into a covering for their common protection. Among 

 these we may mention the caterpillar of a -am all butterfly, 

 the plantain or Glanville fritillary (Melitea cinxia), which is 

 very scarce in this country. 



Although a colony of these caterpillars is not numerous, 

 seldom amounting to a hundred individuals, the place which 



Ziczac Caterpillar and Nest. 



they have selected is not hard to discover. Their abode 

 may be seen in the meadow in form of a tuft of herbage 

 covered with a white web, which may readily be mistaken, 

 at first view, for that of a spider, but closer inspection soon 

 corrects this notion. It is, in fact, a sort of common tent, 



