THE CATERPILLAR AND THE MOTH
the caterpillars go back to the surface of the tent, usually by eight-thirty or nine o'clock. Here they do a little spinning on its walls, but no strenuous work is attempted at
Fig. 147. Mature tent caterpillars feeding at night
this time, and generally within hall an hour the entire family is reassembled inside the tent. Most frequently the crowd collects first in the shady side of the outermost story, but as the morning advances the caterpillars seek
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