This day-flying hawkmoth was mainly a migrant to the UK ... The six-spot burnet is the most common British burnet moth and the only species with six red spots on each forewing. According to Alessandro ...

ONE remarkable circumstance noticeable in the present plethora of works on British butterflies and moths ... vii + 150, plates 32. (London: Day and Son, 1896.) You have full access to this ...

It is fascinating because nearly all other moths and butterflies have sucking mouthparts - the proboscis - for drinking nectar. Butterflies are (in the evolutionary scheme of things) just big, ...

MELANISM has long been a subject of special interest to British entomologists owing to the rise and spread of melanic varieties in many British species of moths and butterflies, such groups as the ...