Catching Night Moths, plate 25 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Cornelis Galle I, Flemish, 1576 - 1650, Philips Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612, Black ink on paper, Horizontal rectangle. The apiary is at right. In the foreground, the bee-masters are beating the bushes, driving out the moths hidden in them toward flaming lamps set up on the ground. At lower left: 'I. Stradanus inv. C Galle sculp'; at lower right: 'Phls Galle excud.' Below: 'MELLIFERIS INFESTI APIBUS SUNT ', Netherlands, 1596, figures, Print

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