. As nature shows them : moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains : with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. Lepidoptera; Nature prints. MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 45 Tinea fiavifrontella,— the common clothes moth, is found in our houses in summer, and may frequently be seen fl3ang about our apart- ments at night. It is of a light yellowish color and has a silky appearance. Tinea tlavifroiitella. The larva is wliitish and does great damage to woollens, using the material on which it feeds to make its pupa case. Numerou
. As nature shows them : moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains : with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. Lepidoptera; Nature prints. MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 45 Tinea fiavifrontella,— the common clothes moth, is found in our houses in summer, and may frequently be seen fl3ang about our apart- ments at night. It is of a light yellowish color and has a silky appearance. Tinea tlavifroiitella. The larva is wliitish and does great damage to woollens, using the material on which it feeds to make its pupa case. Numerous moth destroyers are used to exterminate this pest. Camphor, naphthaline, benzine, snuff and corrosive sublimate may be all used with effect; but connnon kerosene oil is perhaps the simplest, cheapest and most effective. When woollens are to be put away for the summer, sprinkle kerosene oil profusely in the bottom of the trunk or box in whicli they are to be packed and after it is filled lay over the goods a paper satui'ated with it and close the whole up tight. When it is desired to use the clothes once more, a few hours' exposure to the air and sunshine Avill remove all smell of the kerosene. Tiuea granella. Tinea granella is a creamy-white moth with brown markings on tlie upper Avings one-half an inch in exposure, and the larvae live in our granaries, where they entail great loss if left undisturbed. The female moth lays its eggs upon the grains of wheat, and the worms eat their way into the grains, reducing them to shells and binding masses of them together with their webs. The larva, accord, ing to Curtis, makes a cocoon composed of web and wood-pulp in which it hibernates during the winter, changing to a chrysalis in the spring and soon after emerging a Hyponoineuta millepuiictatella. In Hyponomeuta millepunctateUa the larvae are gregarious and spin cocoons. The moth is three-fourths of an inch across the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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