The Brown-Tail Moth in New Hampshire (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Brown-Tail Moth in New Hampshire These caterpillars continue to feed and grow until about the middle of June. Each then spins around itself a silken cocoon, the cocoon being attached to some convenient shelter, commonly the leaves of the food tree. Inside of these cocoons the caterpillars change to chrysalids, and three or four weeks later again change to the peculiar whitish moths, with a tuft of brown hairs at the end of the body of the females, which gives them the common name, Brown-tail Moth. These moths lay eggs in clusters of two or three hundred each on the leaves, generally near the ends of branches, and the latter part of summer these eggs hatch into small caterpillars, which feed upon the leaves, forming gradually the protective mass which remains upon the trees through the winter. The cater pillars remain inside the webbed leaves and thus wait until the advent of the following spring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.