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600 Butterflies and Moths in Full Color
600 Butterflies and Moths in Full Color
600 Butterflies and Moths in Full Color
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The wonder and beauty of butterflies and moths — including their miraculous transformations — have fascinated nature enthusiasts for thousands of years. Rendered from an exquisitely rare nineteenth-century portfolio, the butterfly hues and shapes that have dazzled humankind for centuries are displayed here with magnificent precision. This illustrated archive bursts with sixty-one full-color plates of European butterflies and moths of every variety. Revel in the vast spectrum of intricate markings distinct to such species as the Swallowtail, Monarch, Painted Lady, Red Admiral, and many other fluttering favorites. Details of pupa, eyes, antennae, and the winged insects' favorite plant life also abound, providing enlightening glimpses into the workings of some of nature's most colorful and resplendent creatures. Pure delight for artists, designers, entomologists, and butterfly lovers everywhere!
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 21, 2013
ISBN9780486156002
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    600 Butterflies and Moths in Full Color - W. F. Kirby

    ARCTIIDAE

    Introduction

    Butterflies and moths belong to the order Lepidoptera, or scale-winged insects, which forms part of the class Insecta, the largest and most important division of the sub-kingdom Articulata, or jointed animals. The beautiful forms and colors of butterflies, the intricacy of their markings, and their graceful evolutions in the air and around flowers, have always caused them to be much admired by lovers of the beauties of nature. Almost every child has hunted butterflies through the woods and fields, or has reared silkworms or other moths, and been delighted to find the newly emerged insect in the box along with the empty pupa-case. Very often, just the remembrances of these youthful pleasures lead many to return to it in their mature years. The beauty and the wonderful transformations of butterflies and moths have attracted attention and pleased the fancy from the most ancient times. Philosophers have even reverently traced in them the symbol of the soul, and afterwards, of immortality; for there is a beautiful analogy between the graceful winged insect emerging from the dark, motionless pupa, and the spirit leaving its mortal body and winging its flight to higher regions.

    W. F. KIRBY

    Copyright

    Copyright © 2007 by Dover Publications, Inc.

    All rights reserved.

    Bibliographical Note

    This Dover edition, first published in 2007, contains sixty-one full-color plates from European Butterflies and Moths, originally published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, in 1882. A complete list of the contents of the plates and an Alphabetical Index of Latin Names appear at the end of the book.

    This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than four in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Permissions Department, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

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