. Eyes and no eyes. illow or does not fly about much, for it has no trunk, anddoes not eat any food during its short moth only wants to find a place on which to lay itseggs, which will hatch into a naked red grub. Thisgrub svill bore its way into the tree and live therefor years, eatingthe ^vood. Many mothgrubs live insidetrunks an d branches. If youlook over the cur-rant bushes on ahot summers dayyou ^vill often finda pretty little mothwith a narrowyellow and blackbody, thin legs,long feelers andclear transparentwings, very unlikemost moths. This is one of the Clear-wing-mot
. Eyes and no eyes. illow or does not fly about much, for it has no trunk, anddoes not eat any food during its short moth only wants to find a place on which to lay itseggs, which will hatch into a naked red grub. Thisgrub svill bore its way into the tree and live therefor years, eatingthe ^vood. Many mothgrubs live insidetrunks an d branches. If youlook over the cur-rant bushes on ahot summers dayyou ^vill often finda pretty little mothwith a narrowyellow and blackbody, thin legs,long feelers andclear transparentwings, very unlikemost moths. This is one of the Clear-wing-moths(5, Plate, p. 20), which have scales round the edge oftheir wings only. It is so lazy that you will easilycatch it, and it looks so like a gnat that it is calledthe Gnat Clearwing. This moth lays its eggs in thetwigs of the currant bushes, and its little yellowcaterpillar, with a black line on its back, eats itsway into the pith of the twigs. You should alwaysclear away the dead or faded twigs on the currantc—VI. SIX-SPOT BURNET MOTH WITH ITSCATERPILLAR AND COCOON. 22 INSECT LIFE. bushes, for fear these caterpillars should be inthem. Another moth which you may find flying in thebright sunshine is of a dark blue-green colour, withsix bright crimson spots on its wings. It is theSix-spot Burnet-moth, whose cocoons you mayfind in May fastened on the blades of long grassin the meadow. By August the moth is out andflits from flo^ver to flower. There is one more moth which you will like toknoTV% because its caterpillar is the Woolly Bear,or Hairy Man, which curls itself up in a ball whenyou pick it up. It is very fond of feeding on thelettuces and strawberries, and when it is ready tochange it bites off its long hairs and weaves theminto its cocoon. When the moth comes out it runsabout the flower beds in the evening and does notfly very high. But everyone knows it as the Tiger-moth (4, p. 20), for it is the grandest moth w^ehave. Its front wings are cream coloured withwavy brown s
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