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HOW THE FEMALE OF CACOECIA SEMIFERANA PROTECTS HER EGG-CLUSTERS.*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. P. Gillette
Affiliation:
Fort Collins, Colorado.

Extract

The Box Elder Leafroller, Cacoecia semiferana, was very abundant in many places in Colorado last summer, and in July the moths were swarming in the trees in the evening, presumably to deposit their eggs. The eggs were found beneath a gluey mass, somewhat similar to that used by the tent caterpillar in protecting her eggs, but it was largely covered with what appeared to be scales from the moth, placed like the shingles on a roof.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1892

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References

* Abstracts of entomological papers read before the Iowa Academy of the Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa, December 28 and 29, 1891.