This is a bag worm bag with a bag worm inside. The bag worm is about one-fifth
as long as the bag. The bag worm makes the bag out of pieces of limb. The bag
worm weaves a cloth like lining for the inside of the bag. The bag worm has
already eaten the leaves to the left of the bag. The bag worm is moving the bag to
the right where there are leafs that he can reach. The bag worm spends all the time
inside the bag and near the top. He never leaves the bag. From that position the bag
worm reaches out to leafs that it cuts off . Then it moves the leafs to his usual
position, near the top of the bag. There he eats the leafs.  When the bag worm
cannot reach leafs, he detaches the bag from the limb, and moves the bag to a new
location where there are nearby leafs. There he reattaches the bag to the limb and
goes back to eating.  If the bag worm is disturbed, it quickly moves down in the
bag and closes the opening to the bag. The bagworm poops outside of the bag
through a small opening on the side of the bag. This is the only bag worm I have seen,
although I understand that in some areas they can wipe out large tree areas.

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