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"Pieris" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in this survey, like the last-named codling moth, are occasionally double-brooded. As an example of the many Lepidoptera, which in our islands have normally two complete life-cycles in the year, we may take the very familiar White butterflies (Pieris) of which three species are common everywhere. The appearance of the first brood of these butterflies on the wing in late April or May is hailed as a sign of advanced spring-time. They pair and lay their eggs on cabbages and other plants, and the green hairy caterpillars ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter |
Words linked to "Pieris" : lily-of-the-valley tree, mountain andromeda, large white, family Ericaceae, mountain fetterbush, dilleniid dicot genus, Japanese andromeda, Ericaceae, heath family, arthropod genus, cabbageworm, andromeda, fetterbush, small white, family Pieridae, Pieridae |
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