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EGGS OF CATERPILLARS. 
If you take the trouble to look about in the 
hedges, in the winter time, you may see, here 
and there, a twig with a tiny circle round it, like 
a bracelet; and if you break the twig, you can slip 
the bracelet off. It is made of the eggs of a brown- 
coloured moth, called the lackey moth,* so named- 
because the caterpillar is striped like a man in 
livery, and it is well worth stopping a few minutes 
to examine. The eggs 
are wider at the top 
than at the bottom, 
and fit into each other 
very much like the 
arch-stones of a bridge. 
The cement that binds 
them together, is so 
hard and firm, that it 
is no easy matter to 
break it; and as it 
cannot be dissolved in Bracelet of eggs. Natural size 
and magnified. 
water, or any other 
liquid, no amount of rain will do the eggs any 
harm. 
But some moths go further even than thi’s, 
and provide an outer covering of warm material 
for their eggs. 
* Clisiocampa neustria. 
