The Clothes Moth 
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searching out clothes, blankets or any 
woollen garments and there depositing her 
eggs. These hatch out and a little cater- 
pillar or grub appears, which is of a glossy, 
white colour, with a greyish line upon its 
back, and a few hairs sprinkled here and 
there over its body. When launched into 
the world it wastes but little time and 
begins almost at once to clothe itself in the 
warmest of woollen garments, leaving 
behind it a bare little path running in all 
directions. It really starts first by spin- 
ning a few filaments of silk round its body, 
as if to afford a particularly soft lining, 
and then proceeds to thicken this and to 
add to its bulk by gnawing off the fine 
ends of the wool and thus rendering 
threadbare and riddled the portions upon 
which it has been at work. This sheath 
or tube which it makes for itself, it seldom 
or never leaves. These cocoons are 
wonderfully made since the fine threads 
of the substances which they shear down 
by means of their powerful scissor-like 
little jaws, are fastened together by a 
glutinous secretion. The little grubs 
increase in size, and from time to time 
