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HISTORY OF PHYCIODES THAROS, A POLYMORPHIC BUTTERFLY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. H. Edwards
W. H. Edwards
Affiliation:
Coalburgh, W. vA.
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In the month of July, 1875, I chanced to be in the catskill Mts., when Mr. Mead discovered the food-plant of tharos, as detailed by him in Vol. vii, Ent., p. 161, this being the common wild Aster. A. Novaangliæ, and I obtained from him a cluster of eggs; also afterwards got others for myself by trying the females in bags over the stems of the same plant. The larvæ hatched, and while in their younger stages I brought them to Coalburgh. On the journey, stopping at several points, I had to give them leaves of such species of Aster as I could find, and they are any and all readily–even German Asters from the garden.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1877 , pp. 1 - 10
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1877

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* I found last summer that nycteis larvæ will eat asters as readily as Actinomeris squarrosa, which hitherto I had fed them on.