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small, yet, from their numbers and voracious appetite, they occ« 

 sionally commit great devastation in our orchards. In some yearn 

 the leaves of pear-trees have been completely destroyed, and in 

 the summer season have been as completely denuded and stripped 

 as in the middle of winter. 



The Clothes Moth is of a white, shining, silvery color. 

 ■When the caterpillar-moth-worm comes from the egg, it imme< 



The Clotbes Moth. 



dkteiy commeneos preparing a suitable covering for its feeble 

 frame. It spins a coating of silk, which is extracted from its own 

 body, to which covering it very ingeniously attaches little pieces 

 of nap, which it cuts with its curiously formed jaws, which 

 resemble a pair of scissors. Unless it is compelled by the most 

 urgent necessity, it never quits its warm, comfortable habitation. 

 When it wishes to feed, it puts out its head at either end of its 

 little mansion, as best suits its convenience. As its body enlarges, 

 it adds to the size of its abode, and all the additions partake of 

 the color of the different substances out of which they arc formed 



