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The English moths and butterflies

Chapter 1: THE English Moths and Butterflies: Together with The Plants, Flowers, and Fruits whereon they Feed, and are usually Found.
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The work presents detailed, colored illustrations of native moths and butterflies alongside concise natural-history descriptions, tracing each species' life stages from egg through caterpillar and chrysalis to adult. Plates are paired with accounts of seasonal appearance, host plants, feeding habits, and practical guidance for finding, rearing, and preserving specimens. Observations are drawn from prolonged field and experimental study and organized into classes with accompanying plant identifications. Prefatory material explains the author's methods and influences, and the volume aims to make insect study accessible by combining accurate paintings with systematic notes on behavior, development, and collection techniques.

THE

English Moths and Butterflies:
Together with
The Plants, Flowers, and Fruits whereon they Feed,
and are usually Found.

All Drawn and Coloured in such a Manner, as to represent their several
beautiful Appearances,

Being copied exactly from the Subjects themselves, and Painted on the best
Atlas Paper.


Together with an Attempt towards a Natural History of the said Moths and Butterflies.

This work consists of one Hundred and Twenty Copper Plates, with a particular Account of the Flies represented in the said Plates setting forth the true Times of their Appearance in the Caterpillar, Chrysalis, and Fly State; the most ready Means of finding them; the Method of managing and preserving them; their Ways of feeding; the several Plants they feed on; and, in a Word, everything yet known relating to their Natural History. Together with the Names of the Plants, Flowers, Fruits &c.

The Price of this Work colour’d is Nine Pounds;

Which for the Conveniency of the Buyer is divided into four Parts, and each Part, or any single
Number, may be had separately.


Uncoloured Three Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Sixpence, or Two Shillings and Sixpence
each Number.

The Natural History by itself Ten Shillings and Sixpence.



LONDON;

Printed for, and Sold by BENJAMIN WILKES, the Proprietor, in Fleetstreet.