Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947 · Boston [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 17
t the skin with theparasite on the inside. The latter thenspun a silken cocoon, withinwhich it changed to a pupa(Fig. 10). A short time afterwards an-other change takes place andfrom the pupa there emergesa fly similar to the one whichlaid the egg in the youngcaterpillar (Fig. 11). This flyis… … THE TEHT CATERPILLAR PARASITE. 11 are some, like the Blue Jay and the Cuckoos, which devourthem eagerly. In one case a Cuckoo was seen to eat twenty-seven caterpillars, one after the other, at one time, all takenfrom a single nest.
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