How Animals Work. 



wide distribution, being found in tropical countries as 

 well as in Europe and Great Britain. 



The caterpillars of the familiar Clothes Moth (Tinea) 

 are all more or less expert dressmakers, and unfor- 

 tunately, while busily engaged in making garments for 

 themselves, they are at the same time ruining ours. 

 The caterpillar of the Wool Moth, directly it escapes 

 from the egg, sets to work with its jaws to snip off 

 the tiny shreds of the material on which it is resting, 

 and weaves these together into a beautiful, warm, 

 tubular coat, which is enlarged by additions of mate- 

 rial from time to time as growth makes necessary. The 

 caterpillar of the Fur Moth does even more damage; 

 for not only does it bite off the hairs to weave into a 

 garment, but, the coat finished, it will wander about 

 over the skin, making paths for itself in the fur by 

 biting away every hair that comes within its reach. 



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