Garden Tiger moths

The effect of environment

was under investigation

when Sidebotham took

several thousand Garden

Tiger moth larvae (Arctia

caja) and raised them in

separate lots on different

food plants (Sidebotham

1870b). There was no ef-

fect of diet on colour over

two generations, but he

did note that hind wing

colour differed between

stocks collected at differ-

ent locations. Specimens

in his collection illustrate

variation from almost

white forewings to almost

black, and some differenc-

es in hind wing colour (Fig

2). The inheritance of wing patterns has still not been properly invesgated (Rob-

inson 1971)

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