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gooseberry-bushes; and whenever it is seen 
it should be destroyed. This chrysalis is 
the pupa of the magpie moth, the caterpillar 
of which frequently strips the gooseberry- 
bushes of all their leaves in spring, and thus 
renders their fruit worthless in summer. The 
lackey caterpillar is another very destructive 
insect. These creatures, which are curiously 
striped, like the tags on a footman’s shoulder, 
(whence their name,) assemble together in 
great numbers, and covering themselves with 
a web, completely devour the epidermis and 
parenchyma of the leaf on which they have 
fixed themselves; they then draw another 
leaf to them, which they also devour, and 
then another, till the greater part of the 
leaves of the tree they have attacked, pre¬ 
sent a fine lace-like appearance, as though 
they had been macerated. Did all these 
insects live to become moths, they would 
completely destroy not only our gardens, 
but our forests, as they feed on almost every 
different kind of tree; but with that beauti¬ 
ful arrangement by which all the works of 
our Great Creator are balanced equally with 
each other, and none allowed to predominate, 
