Parowan Times | 1938-10-14 | Page 8 | Where Walnut Caterpillar Feeds

where walnut caterpillar feeds the walnut caterpillar feeds on the leaves of various trees including walnut hickory beech oak willow and thorn apples the female deposits about 00 or more eggs on the under side of the leaf where the young hatch and do their feeding the larvae or caterpillars have the habit of creeping down the tree trunks in masses when they are ready to molt when they are full grown in the fall they enter the ground to pupate where they pass the winter