LASIOCAMPIDAE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Lasiocampidae

... are exposed to the attacks of many enemies, and the various ways in which they obtain protection are well worth studying. A clothing of hairs[7] or spines is often present, and it is interesting to find that many species of our native Tiger and Eggar Moths (Arctiadae and Lasiocampidae) which pass the winter in the larval stage, have caterpillars with an especially dense hairy covering (fig. 17). Experiments have shown that hairy and spiny insects are distasteful to birds and other creatures ...

— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter