EditorialBedstraw hawkmoth or galium sphinx, Hyles gallii, elephant hawkmoth, Deilephila elpenor, and pine hawkmoth, Sphinx pinastri. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural...
EditorialLime hawkmoth, Mimas tiliae, eyed hawkmoth, Smerinthus ocellatus, and poplar hawkmoth, Laothoe populi. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European B...
EditorialVine hawkmoth, Hippotion celerio, Mediterranean hawkmoth, Hyles nicaea, and small elephant hawkmoth, Deilephila porcellus. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural H...
EditorialWillowherb hawkmoth, Proserpinus proserpina, on a black auricula flower, Primula auricula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l'Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten (Accurate Descri...
EditorialConvolvulus hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli and privet hawkmoth, Sphinx ligustri. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Natu...
EditorialSeathorn hawk-moth, Hyles hippophaes, dusky hawkmoth, Hyles vespertilio, and spurge hawkmoth, Hyles euphorbiae. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of E...
EditorialDeath's head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, moth, caterpillar and pupa (Jasmine sphinx, Sphinx atropos). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalis...
EditorialWillowherb hawkmoth, Proserpinus proserpina, on a strawberry bush, Fragaria ? ananassa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l'Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten (Accurate Descripti...
EditorialOleander hawkmoth or army green moth, Daphnis nerii (Deilephila nerii). Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842.
EditorialEyed hawkmoth, Smerinthus ocellatus, larva and pupa on an apple branch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l'Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten (Accurate Descriptions of the Metam...
EditorialDeath's head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, six-spot burnet, Zygaena filipendulae, and nine-spotted moth, Amata phegea. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles d'Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Natu...
EditorialTobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta 1, nine-spotted moth, Amata phegea 2, Cosmosoma fenestrata 3, and pink-spotted hawkmoth or sweetpotato hornworm, Agrius cingulata, 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrati...
EditorialElephant hawk moth, Deilephila elpenor, white china mark moth, Cataclysta lemnata. An Ichneumon lentorius wasp (i) lays its eggs in the hawkmoth larva which hatches from the chrysalis (k). Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris f...
EditorialEyed hawkmoth, Smerinthus occellatus, and white satin moth, Leucoma salicis, feeding on willow leaves. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from "The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies," new edition ed...
EditorialCinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae, cream spot tiger moth, Epicallia villica, and eyed hawkmoth, Smerinthus ocellatus, on a ragwort plant, Jacobaea vulgaris. Moses Harris based his illustration on Jacob l'Admiral's. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustr...
EditorialElf riding a death's-head hawkmoth in the evening. Handcoloured woodblock print by Edmund Evans after an illustration by Richard Doyle from In Fairyland, a series of Pictures from the Elf World, Longman, London, 1870.
EditorialOleander hawkmoth, Daphnis nerii, moth, caterpillar and pupa. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1799. Most of the...