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The English moths and butterflies
Benjamin Wilkes
Long before color photography, Benjamin Wilkes painted England's moths and butterflies for wondering readers. He explains their eggs, caterpillars, and food plants, then their forms and habits with an artist's care. An early and charming guide to the winged insects of Britain. Meet the butterflies and moths through an eighteenth-century painter's eyes.
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56 chapters
- 1THE English Moths and Butterflies: Together with The Plants, Flowers, and Fruits whereon they Feed, and are usually Found.
- 2TO MARTIN FOLKES, Esq; President, And to the COUNCIL and FELLOWS of the ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
- 3THE PREFACE.
- 4INTRODUCTION.
- 5Of Moths and Butterflies in general.
- 6On the different Manner of laying their Eggs.
- 7Of the Eggs.
- 8Of Caterpillars.
- 9Of the Food of Caterpillars, and their Manner of Feeding.
- 10Of the Forms of Caterpillars.
- 11Of the Change of Caterpillars into the Chrysalis State.
- 12Of the Chrysalis or Aurelia.
- 13How the Aurelia or Chrysalis is secured.
- 14Of the FLY.
- 15The Distinction of Moths and Butterflies.
- 16Concerning the Food of the Fly.
- 17The Enemies of Moths and Butterflies.
- 18An 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.
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