Silk-Spinning Cave Larva
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A short 1893 entomological note by H. Garman describing a silk-spinning larva found on limestone cave walls near Lexington, Kentucky, probably the young of a cave-dwelling fly. It covers the larva's body structure, the pads it uses to cling to and move along its silken thread, and its likely habits and food. The author compares it with a Mammoth Cave larva he described in 1891 and with other silk-producing Diptera. It has no connection to weaving or textile practice beyond the natural silk thread.
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- 1893
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- English
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