Still, if you have the Butterflies, you can't leave out the Moths."
Let's see--the Fireflies, Butterflies, Moths. The Bees must come, I suppose."
"For my part, I can't conceive how the Moths can live as they do," said Miss Katy, with a face of disgust.
The bright colours of many butterflies and of some moths are specially arranged for display, so that they may be readily seen.
There's such an everlasting tribe of those Moths; and if you invite dull people they're always sure all to come, every one of them.
A house goes to ruin more rapidly if uninhabited than with a careful tenant; clothing is destroyed more quickly by moths than by wear.
Hence the lower surface of the wings being brighter than the upper surface in certain moths is not so anomalous as it at first appears.
The Saturniidae include some of the most beautiful of all moths, their wings being decorated, as in our British Emperor moth, with fine ocelli; and Mr. T.W.