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IN your review of “Notes of a Naturalist and Antiquary” in the issue of November 18, it is said that the caterpillar of the Spurge Hawk Moth “feeds exclusively on the Sea Spurge, although the plant secretes an acrid juice ‘so painfully poisonous that it is difficult to imagine a digestive apparatus competent to deal with it.’”
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DIXON, W. Insusceptibility of Insects to Poisons. Nature 57, 365 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057365b0
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