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.
Wilkes, Benjamin
Butterflies -- Great Britain
The COMMA-BUTTERFLY breeds twice a Year: The first Time towards the
End of _June_, and the second about the Beginning of _September_.
The _Caterpillar_ feeds on _Hop-Leaves_, _Nettles_, _&c._ puts on
the _Chrysalis_ Form in _June_ and _August_, and is about fourteen
Days in that State, when the _Fly_ appears, which may be taken in
Gardens, on _Blackberry_ Blossoms, by the Sides of Hedges, and in
such like Places. The Colours of the first Brood of this _Butterfly_
are considerably lighter than as here represented.
The Double Wild Poppy, with a fiery-coloured Flower edged with white.
_Papaver, erraticum, flore pleno igneo marginibus candidis._ H. L.
L. 3. CH. 1. VII. CL. 2. S. _a._ 7.
The GREAT FRITILLARY-BUTTERFLY. Mr. _Rosel_ says, the _Caterpillar_
feeds on _Nettles_, in the private Recesses of Woods, that it changes
into the _Chrysalis_ State at the End of _May_, and that the _Fly_
is produced in _June_. This _Butterfly_ is very swift in Flight,
and is best taken in the Forenoon, when it will settle and feed on
_Blackberry Blossoms_, _Thistles_, _&c._ They are most commonly found
in Woods, and the Fields adjacent to Woods.
See _Rosel_, Cl. 1. Tab. 7.
The Bramble.
_Rubus major, fructu nigro._ J. B.
L. 3. CH. 1. VIII. CL. 2. S. _a._ 8.
The PLANTAIN FRITILLARY-BUTTERFLY. The _Caterpillar_ hereof feeds on
_Plantain_, _Clover_, and _Grass_, changes to a _Chrysalis_, within
a Web of its own spinning, upon the Surface of the Ground, at the
Beginning of _May_, and the _Fly_ appears fourteen Days after. The
_Caterpillars_ are sociable, and feed together. They appear of a
very timorous Nature, for if you move the Food on which they are,
they immediately quit their Hold and fall to the Ground, and there
remain in a curl’d up Form till such Time they think the Danger over.
The _Butterfly_ is swift in Flight, but may be taken if diligently
attended to, in Fields of _Hay-Grass_, at the Time above-mentioned.
_Figure_ 1. Rough Grass. 2. Plantain. 3. Clover.
1. _Gramen asperum._ J. B. 2. _Plantago major vulg._ C. B.
L. 3. CH. 1. IX. CL. 2. S. _a._ 9.
The HEATH FRITILLARY-BUTTERFLY. I found the _Caterpillars_ of this
_Fly_ feeding on common _Heath_ in _Tottenham_-Wood, about the Middle
of _May_, 1745, and they are of the same fearful Nature as the
last-mentioned. Six or seven of them were feeding near each other, I
observed their Manner of eating, which was extremely quick, and when
they moved it was at a great Rate. I fed them with common _Heath_ for
three or four Days; at the End of which some of them changed into
_Chrysalis_, in which State they remained about fourteen Days, and
then the _Flies_ came forth. This _Butterfly_ is very common in most
Woods, but its _Caterpillar_ is very rarely found.
Common Heath in Flower.
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