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Through May and early June, they are to be seen within, or 

 beside their silken tabernacles, feeding close together, in the 

 form of small grey caterpillars, spotted with black, after which 

 they are to be found as chrysalides, black and yellow, hung 

 pendant, head downwards, and side by side, to the stalks and 

 branches, most frequently of blackthorn, which they have 

 united to strip bare. Each chrysalis is veiled by a thin cocoon 

 of silk, and a web of the same material encloses the whole 

 company, which, however, is partially discernible through both. 

 In July, having then cast off both uniform and armour, these 

 little devastators appear as Ermine Moths,* with silvery black- 

 besprinkled wings, harmless in outward seeming, but the gene- 

 rators of a multitude of mighty mischiefs. 



Leaving wood and hedge-row, let us in May, or even in April, 

 walk through the garden, and observe in what manner the second 

 division of our destroying army may be there employed. Have 

 these intrusive devourers shown more respect to the queen of 

 flowers, than to the monarch of the woods ? Not a whit ; and 

 see here the proof ! On almost every rose-bud is a bundle of 

 young leaflets, all drawn from their propriety and, contrary to 

 their own expansive inclination, bound together, usually in a 

 fan -like form, by means of a silken tie. If we pull asunder 

 the leaves thus unwillingly united, we shall find living within 

 and upon them, the agent of their union, a little brown black - 

 headed caterpillar. t Secure from wind and weather, this little 



* Yponomeiita padella. t Lozotcenia rosana. 



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