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Pale brown bombyx

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Date

[Between 1816 and 1818]

Description

Two small moths with brown and yellow colouring, shown with pupa and caterpillar on a flowering vine. The artist comments ' Found several of the caterpillars feeing on the cynanchum macrophyllum, in a swamp near Savannah [Georgia] being the first & only ones I have met with, spun up 12 June bred 29th'.

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Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Georgia, USA

Country

USA