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 The moth emerges from the cocoon from July till the end 

 of August. It lays in the second half of July about 100 to 

 200 bluish-grey eggs, as large as hempseed, in clusters of 



Fig. u; 



. — Gastropacha pint, Oehsh 

 Stale. b Female. 



about 25 to 50 in number, in the bark-crevices of standing 

 Scots pines, usually at about the height of a man, or on the 

 needles and shoots of young pines. 



The caterpillars hatch after 20 to 25 days, about the middle 

 of August. They at once devour their egg-shells, and then 



