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The Cabbage-Moth (. Pceniocampa got hied) lays its eggs upon cabbages and 
turnips; it is the soft, white butterfly that wears the livery of innocence “ to 
serve the devil init represents another unwelcome European immigrant. 
The spring broods are darker in color, and thus attract less attention. The 
cabbage-moth destroyed in Canada during a single season a quarter of a mil¬ 
lion dollars’ worth of produce. The cabbage-moth spins a cocoon, and hence 
is sometimes 
called the 
spinning but¬ 
terfly. 
The Gam¬ 
ma E u 1 e 
\Pluria gam¬ 
ma) is a noc- 
turnal, or 
night-flier. It brown bear {Arctia caja). SII.K-WORM moth ( Bombyx mori). 
takes its 
name from a silvery, marking which resembles the Greek letter gamma, which 
is found upon the front wings. The caterpillar is green, with two yellow and six 
white lines. It hides its cocoon in a leaf which it rolls together for this purpose. 
The Pine- 
Moth (Sphinx 
pinastri) was 
named be- 
i t fre¬ 
quently erects 
itself, when it has 
a striking resem¬ 
blance to the Egyp¬ 
tian sphinx. It is 
called also the 
hawk-moth, or the 
humming-moth. It 
is very destructive 
to pine forests, and 
has no respect for 
the age of the trees. 
At times in France 
a whole village will 
turn out by night 
and devote itself to 
the destruction of this ravager of the finest and most stately forest trees. 
The Hop Spinner (. Hepialus humuli ) is not an attractive insect, as it 
smirches itself in feeding. The male is white above and grayish-brown below; the 
female is light gold above and reddish-gray beneath. It flies in the early evening. 
The Twelve-Feathered Moth ( Alucita hexadactyla) is found both in Europe 
and in America. It is ash color with brown markings. It feeds upon the 
honeysuckles and hibernates. It takes its name from the fact that each wing 
is divided into six lobes or feathers. 
