The Butterfly and Moth Family 61 



the harm in this world, but it is their children, 

 the caterpillars (Figs. 60 and 62). It is a baby 

 moth that eats our woollen clothes and furs and it 

 is the babies of the bigger moths and butterflies 

 which eat up our garden truck, play havoc on the 

 farm and with the forest trees. The mother but- 

 terfly lays its eggs on the j^lant which its babies 

 are to use for food, the eggs hatch out into tiny 

 caterpillars, these caterpillars do nothing but eat! 

 eat! eat!! When they grow too big for their skin, 

 a new skin is formed underneath the old one and 

 they crack open the old one and crawl out to eat 

 some more. 



They keep this up until they begin to feel queer, 

 then they know it is time to stop eating, some- 

 thing mysterious is going on inside of them and 

 they are about to change to " pupse." This is a 

 word which means something wrapped up in 

 swaddling clothes (Fig. 61, 63, 64 and 65) like an 

 Indian pappoose. 



This pupa shape is formed inside the skin of 

 the caterpillar and it wiggles its way out through 

 the caterpillar's skin. The butterfly pupa we call 

 a chrysalis, the pupa of a moth is usually concealed 

 inside of a silken cocoon (Figs. 65 and QQ) or in a 



