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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 “ 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* 
