Of the Food of Caterpillars, and their Manner of Feeding.
Their Food is almost general, but some Kinds will eat nothing except their own particular Trees, or Plants.
Some Species feed upon Herbage, others live and feed upon the solid Parts of Trees, and Barks.
Some dwell in the Earth, or other private Recesses in the Day-time, and at Night come forth, and feed on Grass, Flowers, &c. Others again feed on the different Kinds of Mosses, Heath, Broom, the Leaves of Trees, Shrubs, &c.
Some feed upon the Waters naked and exposed, and others make themselves Cases of Sticks, Rushes, &c. in the Waters, where they get their Food.