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After raising a bumper catepillar crop one summer. Walcott realized that the oak season would soon be over, leaving nothing to feed the baby caterpillars; hence the idea of frozen caterpillar food originated...
...started with oak leaves and used the same process you'd ordinarily use for spinach," Walcott explained yesterday, "and boiled the leaves for two minutes before freezing. But the catepillars had to be coaxed to eat them and didn't grow a whit, so we added vitamins and got better results...
Both Dane and Walcott declined to comment on the claim that their experiments may actually help prove that forzen foods are less nutrious than a diet of fresh greens...
This September, they got their first chance to raise Japanese caterpillars instead of the domestic variety. The Sales Manager of a large chemical company wrote to the "Harvard Entomology Department" asking them to raise a few live silkworms. The letter finally reached Williams, and he handed it on to Walcott, who answered it and in due course received a reply beginning, "Dear Dr. Walcott...
...till now Dane hasn't been able to obtain a permit to import the live caterpillar eggs, so ten days ago Walcott and he smuggled some in from Canada. However, these caterpillars won't be ready until next spring--too late to collect...