Hedgerow Life 
any other moths. A moth, you know, 
generally has feathery wings, covered 
with coloured scales; but these have 
transparent wings like bees and wasps, 
and their bodies are also like them, with 
bright yellowand black bands. One looks 
like a bumble-bee, another like a wasp, 
another big one is just like a hornet, 
smaller ones are like the ichneumon 
flies, and they all of them look so very 
dangerous that you would certainly 
hesitate before you touched one. 
Then some of the caterpillars are 
hairy, like the common woolly-bear, and 
most birds refuse to touch them. The 
cuckoo is the only bird I know which 
will eat hairy caterpillars. The woolly- 
bear will eat nettles and docks; and when 
it is big and fat and grown up, it wanders 
about, and then you generally find it 
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