Basket-Carriers. 129 
tan 
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. 
