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The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.Wilkes, Benjamin

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The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.

Name: The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.
Author: Wilkes, Benjamin

Wilkes, Benjamin

Butterflies -- Great Britain

_SEE, to the Sun the ~Butterfly~ displays
      Its glittering Wings, and wantons in his Rays:
      In Life exulting, o’er the Meadows flies,
      Sips from each Flow’r, and breathes the vernal Skies.
        Its splendid Plumes, in grateful Order, show
      The various Glories of the painted Bow.
      Where Love directs, a Libertine it roves,
      And courts the fair ones thro’ the verdant Groves.
        How glorious now! How chang’d since Yesterday! }
      When on the Ground, a crawling Worm it lay,      }
      Where ev’ry Foot might tread its Soul away!      }
      Who rais’d it thence? And bid it range the Skies?
      Gave its rich Plumage, and its brilliant Dyes?
        ’Twas ~God~:—Its ~God~ and thine, O ~Man~, and ~He~   }
      In this thy Fellow-Creature lets thee see,       }
      The wond’rous Change which is ordain’d for thee. }
      Thou too shalt leave thy reptile Form behind,           }
      And mount the Skies, a pure ethereal Mind,              }
      There range among the Stars, all bright and unconfin’d. }_

[Illustration: (Decorative Design)]




         An _Account_ of those _Places_ where some GENTLEMEN
                               OF THE
                          AURELIAN SOCIETY

Have been used to collect _Caterpillars_, _Chrysalides_ and _Flies_,

                In the following Months of the Year.


                               MARCH.

From the 15th to the 25th of this Month, a _Moth_ called the _Orange
Under-Wing_, may be taken in _Hornsey-Wood_, and in the Fields close
to the Sides thereof. It flies in the Day-time, is an exceeding
pretty _Moth_, and not to be met with in such Plenty any where else,
that I know of. The _Oak-Beauty_, and some other _Moths_ are bred in
this Month, but are rarely met with in the _Fly_ State.


                               APRIL.

In this Month a great Variety of _Caterpillars_ and _Chrysalides_
may be taken by the Method already described. The Banks about the
_Chelsea_ Water-Works and such-like Places are most likely to
furnish the _Chrysalides_ of the _Hawk Tribe_.

At the Roots of the _Elm_, _Lime_, _Willow_, and _Poplar Trees_, you
will find in this _Month_ a Variety of _Aureliæ_, which will produce
their _Flies_ in the _May_ and _June_ following.

Be now diligent to collect _Caterpillars_ from all kinds of Growths,
which, if taken Care of, will produce their _Flies_ a few Months
hence. Towards the End of this Month some _Flies_ may be taken in the
Day-time, and some _Moths_ in the Evening.


                                MAY.

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The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.

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