The Clothes Moth 
THE CLOTHES MOTH 
The Clothes Moth or Woollen Moth (“ Tinea 
Tapezana ”) cannot, beautiful as it is, claim 
to be regarded with any great affection. 
With its fine antennae, its pretty mottled 
wings and finely tapered body, there is 
surely nothing very harmful in this graceful 
little specimen which can both run and 
fly at such a rate as often to make its 
capture very difficult. How we pity it 
often when such a marvellously conceived 
and constructed little creature has all its 
beauty spoiled in a moment by burning 
itself, as it so constantly does, in the flame 
of the candle. No, the moth in itself is 
innocent, but for the naughty little habit 
which the female has of getting into 
drawers, wardrobes, and cupboards, and 
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