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along eating the flesh of the leaf between the two 
surfaces, till they are full fed, and then they pierce 
through the upper skin, and creeping out spin those 
curious little orange cocoons which you may find in 
the summer clinging to the stems of roses. If you 
have once looked for the tracks of these tiny insects, you 
may easily find them 
showing as pale wavy 
lines on the honey- 
suckle and other leaves. 
So you may also 
trace lines something 
of the same kind, but 
more unpleasant in 
our eyes, on our own 
woollen clothes which 
have been laid by for 
the summer. These 
are made by cater- 
pillars of the same 
family as the leaf- 
Fig. 85. 
The Clothes-Moth.* 
g, Grub feeding in its woollen tube 
g', naked grub taken out of the 
miners, but as there are 
no covering skins here t . 
between which they can tube ; p, pupa hanging in the tube ; 
lie, the clever little fel- m ' mot " 
lows build tubes for themselves (7, Fig. 85) out of the 
wool which they tear off the clothes. They live in 
these just as the Psyche caterpillars live in the grass 
tubes, and w T hen they are going to remodel their bodies 
they close one end of the tube and fasten it to the 
side of the box or cupboard (f>, Fig. 85), and then 
turning themselves with their head to the open end, 
* Tinea tapetzella. 
