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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18800, 1 March 1923, Page 8

Whilst staying in tho Riviera in (he early spring of 1922 I had tho good fortune to see a column uf the procession caterpillar wending its way from a group of Aleppo pines towards a suitable pubating ground writes M. E. Bunyard in N'at.ureland). At first I thought it was a gigantic centipede, but on closer examination found it to bo a file of 17 caterpillars in procession, each touching head to tail with its neighbour. The caterpillars measured about ’iin each, and were light brown, covered with hairs. They kept the line perfectly until, passing along a ridge, one from about the centre of the line fell over the edge. Immediately the caterpillar in front of the one which fell out signalled by movement to the next one. and so on to tho leader, who immediately stopped until the deserter had crawled back into position, when the procession con r tinned, another signal having apparently been passed up that the line was again complete. I saw tills occur twice, and in each case tho lino halted until reformed, and then continued on its way.