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Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) [1] was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly.
It was described by Maria Sibylla Merian in her 1705 publication Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, and Pieter Cramer provided the formal description of the species in 1776. The most commonly accepted English name is the white witch. Other common names include the ghost moth, great gray witch and great owlet moth.
Maria Sybilla Merian Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamenis (Transformations of the insects of Surinam) published by G. Valck in Amsterdam. It is a masterpiece of both art and science and Maria Merian, "the mother of entomology", was the first to record the full life cycle of many species of butterflies and moths. John Ray publishes Methodus ...
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More famous is Maria Sibylla Merian, who was not wealthy. The people along the Rio Negro in Brazil once exploited the territorial habits of the blue morpho (M. menelaus) by luring them into clearings with bright blue decoys. The collected butterfly wings were used as embellishment for ceremonial masks.
“The western population is at greatest risk of extinction, having declined by an estimated 99.9%, from as many as 10 million to 1,914 butterflies between the 1980s and 2021.
Maria Sibylla Merian of the Dutch Republic: butterflies and moths of Surinam; Ruggero Verity of Italy: butterflies of the Palearctic; Hans Fruhstorfer of Germany: world butterflies, but especially Java; Edward Meyrick of England: Microlepidoptera; Herman Strecker of the U.S.A.: butterflies of the Americas; Anthony Valletta of Malta: butterflies ...
There's a wonderful book for kids about her called Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian, released in 2010 by Margarita Engle. The illustrations are beautiful and the story is inspiring to young children.