A sprig from a plant with small red flowers  [Jatropha gossypifolia] . The large green caterpillar became the liver-coloured chrysalis then the large grey moth with six orange/yellow spots on its body  [Cocytius antaeus] ; a yellow butterfly.  Maria Merian, the first European naturalist to take note of and include all life stages of the butterfly in a single picture plane. Plate 38    Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium,  1705.
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