![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For a prize of fifteen cents per hundred, each March through early May, children were coaxed to collect the teeming nests by the wagonload to be counted and burned by their teachers. Beginning in 1894, the Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS) paid a cash bounty to boys (alas, no tree-climbing girls were envisioned) to clip the nests and egg “belts” of tent caterpillars, particularly in Indian Ridge. Miss Buck’s annual reports detail the efforts she and the other Indian Ridge trustees took, as fond parents, to protect the Reservation’s trees from fire and especially destructive moths. ![]()
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