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    Image number: RS.9918
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    Life cycle of the Pine hawk moth

    Date
    1818
    Creator
    W. Siegrist (1800, German) , Printmaker
    After
    T. Weber (German)
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts_x167_20
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 260mm
    width (print): 200mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    Description
    Seven figures showing the development of Bombyx pini [the Pine hawk moth Hyloicus pinastri]. Including eggs, caterpillar, pupa stage and fully grown female moth. The insect is shown on the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) in figure 4.

    Plate 1 from Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen der Insekten und Krustenthiere..., by Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Suckow (Heidelberg, 1818). Inscribed below “T Weber ad nat pinx. W. Siegrist sculp. Mannheim”.
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