Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1876 — Processionary Caterpillars. [ARTICLE]

Processionary Caterpillars.

The last »#>£•! §§«rr/f»*s, Bcieim-G->*»ip tin BtimniMod some observations of a species of Proeessionarv Moth which inhabits the southern part of Europe. The notes refer to the lam or oalerplllaia rs ilic^ which tracted by something by the roadside S e tOJJ tojo WsiKt middle a little distance from the others, and we found his place soon tilled up; but he crawled I'jjjk to and, from the way they from side to side, a seemed to be going dL, vtadhapwaMWcd their original leader was not fit to lead, and they chose another make his way into tlie^KMHßfr ■o«hJ A little farther on w<pvEpKjJHmmMml wft<W%T>€lH wwppeff wnenTlreT Triet7 “m- - m> tuam- a lw^li catcrpil lap of * th£ ProccssioosrwMoth sects iwttM 5 “ It uSnot diVwed into ghambers, but. consists of one la4a&haU4Sofiiy. 'th/UY necessary that HMTOUrtHd lreVnore^erf-'

nrougCTvTfrom theimto ux deep- The processionals always zaamsmunga gRHJwPM' bv a species or social caterpillar which aemißßM’ preceding; wortlw.of nowwdißßiiiltav ion might be advantageously manufactured. Their nests consist of more chambers than one, but are furnished with a main entrance, tjMKhj*hifiHtfc»coio> nists conduct tlicipMK'a<Ajb (ipaclibkj*B>’ When the cifpiMlllleMli seacMb of food, they spin guide-lines. aw SMkJStfftUtettllltf ed further states: “It is remarkable that, however far they may ramble from their nest, they J|Mp jjJnrdT.pp great' shrewdness to discover liow &ey enect silk—no individual nroving an inch without such a pathway, both for the use of his companions and to facilitate his own therefore, (%£| f first chance traveler liaa marked out with his habits of the species feeding upon the oak, gives the following history of his observations:

I hromdiL, mi ryT k mi*riumh covered !, mf "g W I could mC|taLiOi%#e olUfcSk regularity of their march than ,1 couid gras :*,w« them for many days. I hung the branch on which I had brought them against one of my window-shutters. When the leaves mgS&E&gip vimwfMMMß()etMwrasc\«Vre. One set himself in motion, a second %)k .MWhfwnHn 1 march _un simitar. .tJESEIoMBu If first., Tha. single file, was throughout agmitaimm near the ones wnich preceaealhem us those Alp r;JBlaaK& puit^ < 2yftisftoiS e lfi^&Sii t s i was led Ty lie fi^BuTCTaltfSlffiSe “ißmw :WM7'. opening which is at the toßfwhioirwvaid hardly afford spaqe for two Am |cdme out abreast. As soon as it has emerged from SffK ttm vaßna from the nest it „ miikA, a ndpaev during which those fjStftt n ftldQest com tinue to come out* they fall into.their the otheip follow-bmw That which go« s time; Figroer states that, in 1865, these caterpillars were so abumlgafeifeitiMl Mom §e Boulogne that a ■jM > i77lf Jhft'«dlejs were closed to the ptfiSQMwaMlnunfinJ The haim which grow in tufts upon the SSfcHW^ftSS-lISIiSKji The larva of the beautiful blue-green beetle, called Galoaoma sycophants, is a deadly enemy of the Proccssionary Caterpillar. Insttnet teaches it where to find

r without finding from one to a half dozen i*rjibß|t the beetle. Each grub wllLde Kouri-fleral large caterpillars in a any; fcmjft the htoonja Utah they work in a community is mqst destructive. Their victims are defenseless, and as they can neither üb*mdpn the .nest por expsl the ra,agertTtni-lr rapidly dcthem food. . aiK. M«iM><aikMa. Sul WW f "‘S' » '% 1