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Tent Caterpillar

Malacosoma

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Description:

Tent Caterpillars make there nests in branches of trees. There are layers of silk, and the caterpillars move from one layer to another to regulate there temperature. They leave their tent to eat the leaves of the host tree and return to digest their food.

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PublishedJune 16, 2014

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