The Moths and Butterflies 
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white with some grayish on the middle and apex. The eggs are laid 
by the moths directly on the woolen garments or other articles favored 
by the larval palate, and several generations may appear each year. The 
remedies for clothes-moths are the admission of light into closets and dressers, 
the fumigation of infested clothes or rugs in tight chests with bisulphide 
of carbon (the fumes will kill every larva and moth in the chest), and the 
keeping of carpets, mgs, hangings, and garments in cold storage during 
summer absences from home. Send the things to a 
cold-storage company with instructions to keep at 
a temperature below 40° F. The insects cannot 
develop in a temperature below this point. Cloth- 
covered furniture and cloth-lined carriages, if to be 
left long unused, may be sprayed once each in April, 
June, and August with benzine or naphtha. 
A sometimes serious pest of stored grains, espe¬ 
cially corn in cribs, is the Angoumois grain-moth, 
Gelechia cerealella. The larvae bore into the kernels, 
feeding on the inner starchy matter. I have seen ears 
of corn in Kansas cribs with every kernel attacked. 
The larvae feed for about three weeks, then pupate 
inside the kernel, the moth issuing in a few days. 
The kernels of infested ears show from one to 
three little holes from which moths have issued. 
The adult moth, expanding about half an inch, is 
light grayish brown, more or less spotted with black, 
looking much like the case-bearing clothes-moth. 
The eggs are deposited on grain in the field or bin. 
Numerous Tineid species are known as leaf- 
miners because of the burrows of the larvae. Leaves 
of various trees and shrubs often show whitish blotches 
or lines, which when examined closely are seen to 
be due to the separation of the epidermis of the leaf 
from the inner soft tissue or to the complete dis- Fig. 531. _ Pupal cocoons 
appearance of the inner tissue. This is the work of of the apple bucculatrix, 
, n , . , r t ici <• ,, Bucculatrix pomifoliella. 
the tiny burrowing and feeding leaf-miners, the (Twice natural size.) 
larvae of certain Tineid species. Often the miner, 
a small white grub with the usual eight pairs of legs characteristic of Lepi- 
dopterous larvae, can be found in his mine, or, perhaps he will have ceased 
feeding and have transformed to a small light-brown pupa. The species of 
these leaf-miners are many, and numerous different types of mines may be 
found; the winding narrow lines called serpentine mines common on wild 
columbine, the spotted and folded tentiform mines on the wild cherry and the 
