A Silkmoth Rearer's Handbook |
Contents
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND REVISED EDITION | 4 |
Premature emergence | 23 |
7 | 37 |
3 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
abdomen Actias selene Africa anal segment Antheraea apex armature Automeris band blue body colour Boisduval Bouvier broad burnt umber cage caterpillar central cervical shield chestnut claspers cocoon conspicuous costa Cramer cream Cricula Dognin H dorsal dots Draudt H Druce DT and ULT DT on segs Dyar H eggs emergence Eudia Felder foodplant genus green grey greyish ground colour hairs Head and legs Hübner hyaline indian red Jordan larva Larva feeds lateral line margin moult Naples yellow Nudaurelia Oberthür ocellus orange outlined oval Ovum Large Ovum medium Pairing pale pinkish Plate privet prolegs prolegs and claspers promethea Pupa Subterranean pupation races raw sienna reared rearer ringed rose madder Rothschild Saturnia Saturnia pyri Saturniids scalloped Schaus H segs Seitz selene sepia setae shiny black silkmoths species spines spiracles spots stadium thorax transparent tubercles twig Vandyke brown W. R. Smith Walker Westwood wings