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Excerpt from The Entomologist, Vol. 36: An Illustrated Journal of General Entomology Both sallow and willow are equally suitable food for the larva, and birch is readily eaten, even when willow has formed the sole food until the last stage they will also feed on elm. Nettle, I found, was not appreciated, and not touched by them during the last two or three stages only when first hatched could I induce them to feed upon it, and, although they lived upon nettle for several days, they did not thrive, and eventually died. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.