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THE BUGOLOGIST 
Strange, is it not, that the most costly goods are not 
made by man but by animals. Of course, it takes onr 
skill and labor to fashion these things but Nature herself 
is the prime manufacturer. Is not the manufacture of 
silk one of the greatest wonders of Nature? 
This moth however is only one of the family oi silk- 
producers. In China and western United States there is 
a silk-worm, called the Mulberry Silk-worm, the larvae 
of which live ou the leaves of the mulberry tree. These 
silk-worms are kept and raised in large quantities for their 
silk. 
We’ll now search for other moths. Let us go home 
from the clover-patch, perhaps the house has new curi¬ 
osities. 
In every house there is a kind of chamber in which 
old clothes, such as are not used any more, are laid or 
hung away. Let us go into this room and search for a 
tiny moth whose ravages are very destructive. 
Ah ! There is one. He came from that old coat in 
the corner. Let us look it over. Perhaps we can find a 
pupa. Ah ! there is a pupa. 
The moth is of a light buff color with silky wings. 
He has a thick covering of hair on his head. The wings 
are long and narrow with the most beautiful and long 
silken fringe which increases in length towards the base 
