Moths and Butterflies.
Conditions this summer have suited moths and butterflies alike, for I have never seen so many about the garden or round the windows at bedtime. Each summer we are invaded by moths of all shapes and sizes. They manage to find the open window the minute a light is put on, and I have discovered many 1 had not seen before. The privet hawk is certainly more numerous and the magpie moths seem to be countless and more varied "thanever in their marking. While I was trimming the hedge I put out a privet moth that fluttered to the rockery and crawled out of sight, and almost at the same moment a wall butterfly alighted on one of the stones. I can admire almost any butterfly but the whites, and I am so prejudiced against the whites for the damage their caterpillars do thatl.sometimes bombard them out of the garden, although it is a futile thing to do. The day is long and the egg-laying of a butterfly is a brief business and I might as well stand and wait to catch the drifting thistle seed.
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