Nonotuck silk company, Florence, Mass. [from old catalog] · Boston, Wright & Potter printing company · leaf 63
from twenty-live to forty days, ac- cording to circumstanceis and species of worm, they cease to eat and seek convenient places to commence the formation of a castle which shall protect them in the changes incident to cater- pillar life. Having selected a site (Fig. 2), the insect ejects from two… … in from 300 to 500 yards of gossamer web. Fig. 3. (Fig. 3-) Thus self-imprisoned the in- sect, if undisturbed, remains about fifteen or twenty days, undergoing nature's wonderful changes, during which it as- sumes the chrysalis form (Fig. 4), then that of the moth. Having entered upon this new…
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