The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 458
in the caterpillar state for thereception of its eggs, we can hardly account for the fact, that inone situation the white thorn alone is attacked, and the fruittrees untouched; whilst in another it is only one kind of appletree that is injured. It is a peculiarity in the history of this insect,… … being formed within the web which had served for the abode ofthe caterpillars. These webs are quitted from time to time, andnew encampments estabhshed at short distances from each other;hence, each brood constructs several webs in the course of itscaterpillar state; the reason of which is, that the…
