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

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

The Nut-tree.

           _Corylus, Sativa, fructu anguloso._ C. B. 418.


  L. 1. CH. 1.                 XIV.                CL. 3. S. _A._ 14.

The SPOTTED RED and WHITE UNDERWING MOTH. I found and fed the
_Caterpillar_ on _Black Thorn_: It made a Spinning, and changed to
_Chrysalis_ in the Middle of _April_, and the _Moth_ came abroad
about the Middle of _May_. The _Caterpillar_ lives all Winter, and
the _Moth_ is rarely to be met with.

See _Rosel_, Cl. 2. Tab. 43.

_Figure_ 1. The Black Thorn. 2. The Columbine. 3. The Ranunculus. 4.
                          The White Bells.

1. _Prunus sylvestris._ C. B. 2. _Aquilegia vulgaris simplex._ C. B.
         3. _Ranunculus._ 4. _Hyacinthus, flore albo._ C. B.


  L. 1. CH. 1.                 XV.                  CL. 3. S. _A._ 15.

The WOOD TYGER MOTH. This _Moth_ I first discovered in _Cain Wood_.
The _Caterpillar_ lives all Winter, feeds on _Chickweed_, _Lettice_,
the _Lesser Plantain_, _&c._ and is full grown about the Middle of
_April_, when it changes to the _Chrysalis_ within a Spinning: The
_Moth_ is bred in the Middle of _May_, flies by Day, and may be taken
in _Cain_ or _Tottenham_ Woods; an Afternoon is the best Time.

            The Vredenriek Hyacinth, and Lesser Plantain.

   _Hyacinthus Belgicus Vredenriek dictus. Plantago minor._ I. B.


  L. 1. CH. 1.                 XVI.                CL. 3. S. _A._ 16.

The MOTHER of PEARL MOTH. _Nettles_ are the Food of the
_Caterpillar_, within the Leaves of which (folded together) it
lives, and feeds till the Beginning of _June_; when it puts on the
_Chrysalis_ Form wrapt up within a Leaf, whose Edges are fastened by
a Spinning: Fourteen Days after the _Moth_ appears, and may be taken,
very commonly, in an Evening, amongst _Nettles_.

See _Albin_, P. 73. _Rosel_, Cl. 4. Tab. 4.

                          The Cherry-Plumb.

           _Prunus, fructu majori, rotundo, rubro._ Tourn.


  L. 1. CH. 1.                 XVII.                CL. 3. S. _A._ 17.

The YELLOW JULY OAK-MOTH. The Food of the _Caterpillar_ is the Leaves
of the _Oak_ Tree, on which it feeds till the Middle of _June_; then
it changes to a _Chrysalis_ in some Chink or other that it meets
with in the Bark of the said Tree, over which Chink or Hole the
_Caterpillar_ spins a strong Web, which prevents any Bird or Insect
from getting at it in its _Chrysalis_ State. The _Moth_ is bred in
the Middle of _July_, and may, now and then, be found on the Barks of
the _Oak_ Trees in _Richmond_ and other Parks, about that Time; but
it is not a common Fly.

See _Rosel_, Cl. 2. Tab. 17.

                           The May-cherry.

          _Cerasus, majalis, fructu duro subdulci._ Tourn.


  L. 1. CH. 1.                 XVIII.               CL. 3. S. _A._ 18.

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