The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-20
WHITE MOTHS
 INVADE CITY Millions Trooping Over Border from New York State Turn Electric Light Poles Into
 Snow Figures.
A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
One of the Most Peculiar and Inter csting Inyasions of Insects Ever Seen Herc--AIoths Quite
 Harmful, However.

The biggest ir,
 to New Haven In a long inc, If not the biggest on record, Alently bore down upon the city last night. Like the army of Sennacarib tholr hosts are myriad in number and yet they came down on the city without .he sound of hoof beat or a footflll. It Was in like the advance guard of mid winter blizzard and filling the afr around every available light post in the city with flying snowlakes. Fo. the white moths are truly named and If you do not believe the ale and was not out late enough last night to see them arrive take little peep at them to-day or this evening would be bet ter before they break camp again and behold the whitest specimen of the Insect kingdom that ever beetled It's way into this town.
 How many of them were there How many are the snownakes or the raindrops when real storm, nothing such as we have been treated to this summer will do for comparison, how ever, and If you can count them fast enough go out and get census of .he millions of these little white wings who came last night to visit us. For that they were millions in number strong as that expresses It Is no ex- aggeraton. Around every electric light pole they gathered with the GUS tomary moth and the flame attraction and they had not been nerc long be- fore they had the poles about as white as newly-driven snow ma ,es it.
 The whole thing was of he sudden variety No one prognosticated theii appearance as far as there IS any rec. ord. Neither did they send herald be. | fore to announce. But they came and anyone who was about own arounl midnight last night knew that they were here
 The white wings, or white months are apparently a harmless enougl creatures whose only occupation il life Is to keep travelling from on light to another until they fall by tn wayslde and the strange pilgrimage i continued by generations of descen dants who may never have heard O New Haven or Its electric lights. No they are not likely to remain with u overlong. They are now on their wa, from New York state where the, have proved quite an attraction. II fact their debut in Harlem was s, popular that merchants gained con siderable advantage in that town b, reason of the number of people wh, came from places they did not visi to see the famous flame dancers.
 The moths are pure white about tn size of a small butterfly and witt bead-like eyes about the size of half black pins head. They have not an nounced any tinery beyond this cit yet SO no line of march can be pre- sented.
 IL is believed that the great trough from which this part of the countr, Is suffering Is the reason we hay the honor of this visit. It seems thes moths are not thirsty bunch and no not even take to the water wagon They come where there Is no liqui food at all. The farmers will hope O course that they presage storm and good storm, too, but if they are bein driven onward by cloudbursts in tn rear, they refused to be lnterviewe, on the subject last night,
 The last visit of the white month to this city was in 1868.