SOME NOXIOUS INSECTS. 

 CHAPTER II. 



WOOL AND WOOD DESTROYERS. 



rpHE clothes moths, it is easy to understand, can do no 

 J- harm to the naked savage, but it is not so easy to com- 

 prehend that they can be of any benefit to civilised man. 

 Yet the whole tribe of clothes moths are of inestimable 

 service to mankind, whether naked savage or broadcloth- 

 wearing Europeans. 



Let it be remembered that so long as woollen clothes 

 are in use the moth never touches them ; but if stored 

 away in treasuries and not put to use by man, the 

 moth comes and uses them for itself. Man does his 

 best or worst to waste the gifts of God, but He who 

 made both the recipient and the gift abhors waste, and 

 fixes limits to man's power of wasting. 



