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strip the trees of their leaves. The female moth is wingless (Fig. 11). 

 When she emerges from her cocoon, she lays a mass of eggs upon the 



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Fig. 11. — Life history of tussock moth. (Osboru.) 



outer surface of the cocoon and secretes about them a white foamy 

 mass which hardens (Fig. 11). If this occurs in the autumn, the eggs 



