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WILD LIFE AT 



ERMINE MOTH. 



"sugar" may be met with, but they are very difficult to 

 photograph on account of their constant and rapid 

 movements. One night, after an unsuccessful turn 

 at " sugaring," I was getting over a field gate on 

 my way home, with a bull's-eye in one hand and 

 the " sugar " pot and brush in the other, when I 

 noticed something white fly against the gate-post, 

 close to my right hand, in which I held the lantern, 

 and drop to the ground. Upon searching I found an 

 ermine moth, and placed it on the leaf of a chestnut 

 tree growing close by. Whether it had been attracted 

 by the light I carried and stunned itself in colliding 

 with the post I cannot say, but we were astonished 



