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THE TUSSOCK MOTH 
pupal state lasts but a week or ten days. The great 
majority of them never awaken from it, but the 
parasites which have fed on them come forth in due 
time to attack the next brood. The females emerge 
helpless, wingless, fragile, and delicate, in no way 
resembling their former state of existence. They 
have no u new woman ” proclivities, but seem con- 
tent to live their lives on the little habitations in 
which they spent their brief period of rest. The 
males, equipped with handsome wings, fly gaily 
about during the few hours of their life as perfectly 
developed Moths. The females deposit their eggs on 
the woolly cocoons in which they slept, carefully 
covering them with a rough, white, waterproof coat- 
ing. These coatings are conspicuous marks, and as 
each encases some two hundred or three hundred 
prospective larvae they should be gathered and 
destroyed. 
Many species of insects pass the long winter as 
inert pupae. Some survive in the larva form and some 
in perfect development ; but the Tussock Moth is 
of those which pass the winter in the egg state. 
Farther south they sometimes produce two broods in 
a season, but the white-coated egg masses appearing 
on the trees in the fall will not awaken to new life 
till next spring's leaves are spread for a feast. 
