costumes of green, sometimes yellowish the front wings marked with white o’brown. The caterpillar of the ghost moth also is a tunneller. Its tunnel is not straight, but has a sharp angle, where there is a trapdoor, fitting closely and Closing the shaft of the tunnel. The tunnelling operations of this caterpillar sometimes ring-bark large limbs of trees and kill them. Perfect moths are not destructive. Only their caterpillars make trouble for humans. Some of these, although Email, cause damage by feeding on foliaga.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20930, 21 January 1930, Page 2
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84Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 20930, 21 January 1930, Page 2
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