Emperor Moth

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“The Emperor Moth, the general color greyish, with white hairs and purple tinges; wings with a hinder white band. Two white-purplish and dark-brown transverse stripes and an ocellus on each wing. Expansion of wings in the female occasionally three inches, but in the male only two and a half. The caterpillar feeds on the common ling or heath, on the black-thorn, the bramble, etc."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Keywords

moth, kmoths, heath, ling, emperor moth, black-thorn, black thorn, blackthorn, bramble

Galleries

Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies

Source

Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York, NY: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)

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