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STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



is warm enough, 

 their eggs hatch into larvse 

 covered with a woolly skin 

 that looks like a shred of 

 dark brown worsted. This is called 

 the Buffalo Moth. How it eats and 

 eats, moults its skin and eats even 

 that, doing this half a dozen times 

 and working great damage, until it 



G is fully grown ! Then it splits this 



skin for good, and you can see the legs and wings 

 of what soon will be a full-grown Carpet Beetle. 



"If your fine rug is riddled with holes from 

 underneath, blame the Buffalo Moth. If a new 

 blanket looks like a target full of small shot, 

 blame the Buffalo Moth. Cloth, cotton, paper, 

 fur, lace, all are grist for its mill." 



" Then 111 kill these Beetles too," said Anne, 



