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‘Dandelion with a moth and a smaller green moth or butterfly’. Margaretha Barbara Dietzsch, 1741-1784. [the big moth is obviously a Death’s-head Hawkmoth, I think the green one is Green Silver-lines, Pseuodoips prasinana] (via British Museum)
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Posted on June 9, 2012 via Joe Ward with 129 notes
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Death’s Head Hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos) -larvae, pupa and faeces, August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof, 1774, copperplate with handcolouring. From “Der monatlich-herausgekommenen Insecten-Belustigungen Erste Sammlung” (Insect Amusements).

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‘Dandelion with a moth and a smaller green moth or butterfly’. Margaretha Barbara Dietzsch, 1741-1784. [the big moth is obviously a Death’s-head Hawkmoth, I think the green one is Green Silver-lines, Pseuodoips prasinana] (via British Museum)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6fgh6M4Qm1qb2qnco1_r1_500.jpg)
