Butterflies and Moths of Southern Vancouver Island--Jeremy B. Tatum

                                                                                                                                                                 

  GEOMETRIDAE

Xanthorhoe defensaria

  
        

I found the caterpillar of this species in a garden feeding on the flowers of a cultivated Begonia. For a while I had to pick Begonia flowers surreptitiously from a municipal garden at night, though I eventually persuaded the caterpillar to change its diet to the flowers of Bramble.


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