Concord, Mass.
1910.
July 10
[July 10, 1910]

  Clear & intensely hot with fresh west wind.
  I came to Concord yesterday afternoon and spent
most of to-day going over our place to ascertain
what the gypsy caterpillars were doing. A very
small proportion are in the pupa state and a 
still smaller number had become moths and were
beginning to mate and lay but fully 90% were still
crawling about or spinning the first threads of their
webs. They had nearly all ceased feeding much
partly because there is little left to eat for except
about the cabin & in a few other places they had 
stripped most of the oaks and birches with many
of the other trees. Indeed in most directions, as far
as the eye could reach, the country presented a
scene of ruin and devastation with here and there 
a pine or maple - or cluster of them - showing