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Pine Processionary
Thaumetopoea pityocampa
36.2388, -6.07112
Field Notes
Description:
The species is notable for the behaviour of its caterpillar larvae, which overwinter in tent-like nests high in pine trees, and which process through the woods in nose-to-tail columns, protected by their severely irritating hairs, as described by the pioneering entomologist Jean Henri Fabre.
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