Basket- Carriers. 



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HOUSE-BUILDER MOTH. 



Young in House, Winged Male, Young Suspended and Bag-like Female in Longitudinally- 

 Split Cocoon. 



process being repeated several times until a stout stay-line 

 is spun by which the larva hangs securely. Now the 

 creature is ready to feed. The behavior, however, varies a 

 great deal. In feeding upon the white pine it secures itself 

 to one leaf by its stay-line, while it reaches to an adjoining 

 leaf which it bites off, and sitting erect, as it were, in its 

 house, comfortably chews off the end which is continually 

 shored upward by the first and second pairs of true legs 

 that stand out free and untrammelled above the sac. 



But more frequently the worm feeds without separating 

 the leaf from the point of suspension. By making itself 

 fast to the under part of the leaf it is thus enabled to reach 

 the edge, which it gnaws round and round until it has com- 

 pleted its destruction. 



