THE CRIMSON WORM.
The reader will remember that this was one of the three sacred colours—scarlet, purple, and blue—used in the vestments of the priests and the hangings of the tabernacle, the white not taking rank as a colour.
THE CLOTHES MOTH.
The Moth of Scripture evidently the Clothes Moth—Moths and garments—Accumulation of clothes in the East—Various uses of the hoarded robes—The Moths, the rust, and the thief.
One of the insects mentioned by name in the Scriptures is the Moth, by which we must always understand some species of Clothes Moth. These are as plentiful and destructive in Palestine as in this country.
Several references are made to the Moth in the Scriptures, and nearly all have reference to its destructive habits. The solitary exceptions occur in the Book of Job, "Behold, He put no trust in His servants; and His angels He charged with folly: how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?"