142 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



ing* caterpillars of a dark lead color (Figs. 139 and 

 141). Their chrysalides are of a bright mahogany 

 color and the moths come out between the middle 

 of July and the middle of August. There are a 

 number of species of these moths, but the principal 

 difference among the caterpillars themselves is the 

 difference in the degrees of their meanness. 



Seriously, however, boys, if you will collect a 

 number of these cut-worms from the soil of your 

 flower garden, your kitchen garden, your potato 

 or corn patch, along in June or July, and put them 

 in the boxes of earth, they will probably, everyone 

 of them, immediately conceal themselves in the dirt 

 and soon change into pupa or chrysalis form and 

 when the moths break out of their mummy cases 

 you will find you have many different kinds, 

 although, to the careless observer, the " worms " 

 looked all alike. 



CLOTHES MOTHS 



This name is used for several different moths, 

 the larvse or young of which eat woollen clothes, 

 furs and feathers, and like the basket caterpillar 

 on our trees, and the caddice worms in our streams, 

 they use the material upon which they feed to 

 build themselves houses carried, after the manner of 



