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through one of the webbs with a knife
The Caterpiller itself after having slept been the whole winter enclosd in the webb comes out in the spring on the first appearance of the Leaves at first is makes short excursions but after a time growing stronger it leaves the web intirely & having increased in size feeds voraciously on the leaves which are food proper for it food & after sometimes totaly destroyed the leaves of large dis trees & shrubbs for large districts of countrey
Providence however has confind its devastations to the leaves of trees & Bushes & even many of them are spared by it Grass Corn & indeed all the smaller vegetables on
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