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Several ancient civilizations considered the insect to have supernatural powers; for the Greeks, it had the ability to show lost travelers the way home; in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead the "bird-fly" is a minor god that leads the souls of the dead to the underworld; in a list of 9th-century BC Nineveh grasshoppers (buru), the mantis is ...
Insects have appeared in literature from classical times to the present day, ... the fly is a symbol of the children involved. Improvidence
A list of butterflies, moths and caterpillars in fiction. Classification : Fictional animals : Invertebrates : Arthropods : Insects : Butterflies and moths Pages in category "Fictional butterflies and moths"
Fictional butterflies and moths (17 P) C. Fictional cockroaches (12 P) Fictional crickets (8 P) F. Fictional flies (1 C, 21 P) G. Fictional grasshoppers (10 P) H.
[93] [94] Catocala myrrha is a synonym for a species of moth known as married underwing. [s] [96] [97] [98] In total the United Kingdom's Natural History Museum lists seven Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) with the myrrha name. [99] Myrrh is a bitter-tasting, aromatic, yellow to reddish brown gum.
Basic moth identification features. While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and ...
He describes the nature of his devotion: it is the devotion of a moth for a star or what the night feels towards the next morning. He describes his devotion as something that lies beyond worldly existence and strife ( the sphere of our sorrow ).
The moth, called death's head, is a rarely seen nocturnal moth. He described the large moth's colors "of amazing distinction, black, grey, cloudy white tinged with carmine or vaguely shading off into olive green." [17] Behind the moth is a background of Lords-and-Ladies. The size of the moth and plants in the background pull the spectator into ...