Powdered quaker, Orthosia gracilis 2, red chestnut, Cerastis rubricosa 3, brick moth, Agrochola circellaris 4,5, and archer’s dart, Agrotis vestigialis 6. Phalaena Bombyx decolora, opaca, rubricosa, fuscago, trigonalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper’s Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.


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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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