Pomegranate and Menelaus Blue Morpho Butterfly, Maria Sibylla Merian (1703)
A watercolour of a branch of pomegranate (Punica granatum) with the Menelaus blue morpho butterfly (Morpho menelaus) and the caterpillar of the banded sphinx moth (Eumorpha fasciata). This is a version of plate 9 in Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium.
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