The English moths and butterflies

by Benjamin Wilkes

II.

Cl. 2. S. a. 2.

The GOOSEBERRY-MOTH. The Caterpillars are hatch’d at the latter End of the Year, and live all Winter. About the Middle of May you may find Plenty of them on the Gooseberry and Curran Bushes; about which Time they go into the Ground, and turn to Chrysalis, and about the Middle of June the Moths appear. They are common in most Gardens in the Evening, and may be taken in the Day-time, as the last.

See Lister on Godart, P. 19. N. 12. Merian, Vol. 1. Chap. 25. Albin P. 47. Rosel, Class 3. Tab. 4.

L. I. ch. III.

Cl. 2. S. a. 2.

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The Gooseberry Tree, with its Flower and Fruit.

Grossularia, fructu obscure purpurascente. Clus.