Red cracker butterfly and palm nut grubs
Red cracker butterfly, Hamadryas amphinome (copied from Maria Sibylla Merian), and palm nut grubs, larvae of the South American palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum. (Blue Crimson Butterfly of South America and Groo-groo, or Palm Tree Worms.) Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, J. Johnson, London, 1813. Red cracker butterfly, Hamadryas amphinome (copied from Maria Sibylla Merian), and palm nut grubs, larvae of the South American palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum. (Blue and Crimson Butterfly of South America and Groo-groo, or Palm Tree Worms.) Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, J. Johnson, London, 1813
