The English moths and butterflies

by Benjamin Wilkes

Genista minor Aspalathoides, vel Genista spinosa Anglica. C. B. Pin.

L. 1. Ch. 3.

VII.

Cl. 1. S. a. 7.

The LIME MOSS MOTH. The Eggs are of a greenish Colour, and are laid in June; after being in that State about ten Days the Caterpillars are hatch’d. They feed on the Moss that grows on Lime Trees; live and feed all the Winter in the Caterpillar State, and about the Beginning of May, are full grown, at which Time they make a Spinning amongst the Moss, and change to Chrysalis. The Moths are bred at the Beginning of June, and may be taken in the Evenings, by the Sides of Woods, in green Lanes, &c.

L. I. ch. III.

Cl. 1. S. a. 7.

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The Yellow-flowered Sage.