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PLATE 14

The tent caterpillar (Malacosoma americana)

A, an egg mass on an apple twig (about natural size). B, young caterpillar feeding on an opening leaf bud. C, branches of an apple tree with a tent in a fork, from which trails of silk lead outward to the twigs where the caterpillars are feeding on the leaves. D, a full-grown caterpillar (three-fourths natural size). E, cocoon. F, pupa, taken from a cocoon. G, male moth. H, female moth laying eggs