Then they burrow into the earth, build a water-proof house around themselves from material which is inside them, and lie through rain and freezing cold for months.
A year from egg laying they come out like this, and begin the process all over again.

They don't eat, they don't see distinctly, they live but a few days, and fly only at night; then they drop off easy, but the process goes on." A shivering movement went over the moth.

The wings drooped and spread wider.

Mrs.Comstock sank into soft awed tones.
"There never was a moment in my life," she said, "when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now.

I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared.