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I SHOULD like to know if it is a known fact that some caterpillars are carnivorous, eating their own kind, and small ones of another kind? I have found on a lime-tree on our lawn, six caterpillars, two of which have done so.
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WILLIAMS, J. Carnivorous Caterpillars. Nature 46, 128 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046128c0
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