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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 _Merian_, Vol. 1. Ch. 23. _Albin_, Pl. 25. _Rosel_, Cl. 2. Tab.
4, 5. _Reaumur_, Pl. 49 and 50. Pag. 554. Vol. 1.


                      The White Fruit-bramble.

           _Rubus vulgaris major, fructu albo._ Raii. Syn.

  L. 1. CH. 1.                  IV.                CL. 2. S. _a._ 4.

THE PLUMB-TREE MOTH. The _Caterpillar_ feeds in Gardens on various
Fruit-trees: It changes to a _Chrysalis_ about the End of _May_,
within Leaves spun together, and lies in that State till the Middle
of _June_, when the _Moth_ appears.

See _Albin_, Pl. 36.


                      The red Roman Nectarine.

                     _Nucipersica Romana rubra._

                             SECT. _b._

             CATERPILLARS, hairy, _with_ Protuberances.

  L. 1. CH. 1.                  I.                 CL. 2. S. _b._ 1.

THE WILLOW RED-UNDERWING MOTH. The _Caterpillar_ feeds on _Willow_;
changes to a _Chrysalis_, betwixt the Bark and Body of the _Willow_
Tree, about the Middle of _June_. The _Moth_ is bred in the Middle
of _July_, and may be found at that Time on the Barks of _Willows_,
and other Trees, as also against Walls, Houses, Barns, _&c._ If the
Weather proves very hot, the _Moth_ will fly in the Day-time. The
_Caterpillar_ is rarely found.

See _Albin_, P. 80. _Rosel_, Cl. 2. Tab. 15.


                         The weeping Willow.

     _Salix orientalis, flagellis deorsum pulchre pendentibus._
                             Tourn. Cor.




                             CLASS III.

                  CATERPILLARS _having much_ HAIR.

                             SECT. _A._

                      _Without_ Protuberances.

  L. 1. CH. 1.                 I.                  CL. 3. S. _A._ 1.

THE GREAT TYGER MOTH. The _Caterpillars_ are hatch’d from the Egg in
_August_, and feed in their infant State on _Nettles_, _Lettice_,
_&c._ till the End of _October_; when, if the Weather be cold and
bad, they find themselves a Residence for the Winter in Holes and
private Recesses, where they continue till the _March_ or _April_
following, as the Spring is more or less forward. At their coming
out of their Holes they feed on the young _Nettles_, _Chickweed_,
_&c._ that grows in dry Ditches and Gardens; and, when they are in
their last Skin, which is usually at the End of _May_, they may
easily be found in the Places already mentioned. At the Beginning of
_June_ they spin a Bag, and within that change to the _Chrysalis_,
in which State they lye for one Month, after which the _Moths_ come
abroad and are very common. I have observed, that most of the _hairy
Caterpillars_ live throughout the Winter, after the Manner above
mentioned.

See _Lister’s Godart_. N. 99. _Moufet_. 15. P. 93. _Raii_ Hist.
Insect. P. 151. N. 3 and P. 152. N. 7. _Merian_, Vol. 1. Ch. 5.
_Albin_. Pl. 20. _Rosel_, Cl. 2. Tab. 1. _Reaumur_, P. 534. Vol. 1.


                         The Hatfield Plumb.

           _Prunus, fructu magno crasso subacido._ Tourn.

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