As it requires no drink, and can live without any other food than the leaves of the cecropia, of course it remains on a single tree so long as it has plenty of leaves.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
For this the farmer should thank him heartily, even if the butterfly-hunter does not, for the cecropia caterpillar is destructive.
"The Woodpeckers"
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
I had just then a great cecropia, an able-bodied green gentleman armed with twelve thorn-like, sizable horns, and wearing, along with other agreeable adornments, three yellow and four red arrangements like growths of dwarf cactus plants on the segments behind his hard round green head.
"Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man"
Marie Conway Oemler