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Some adults are so similar that the only way to identify them is by their caterpillars' food plant – in this case the native and common bird-cherry tree.
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There are eight varieties of ermine moth that live in the UK, with the bird-cherry, with five rows of black dots on the forewing being the most common, particularly in the north.
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The bird-cherry ermine moth Yponomeuta evonymella is on the wing in Bradford.
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Branches of bloom-laden bird-cherry trees peep in at my window, and now and again the breeze bestrews my writing-table with their white petals.
A Hero of Our Time 2003
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The surface is seen next morning "covered with little white globes like tiny puff-balls, the size of a bird-cherry, or spilled globes of some large grain."
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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Europe, which was named by Linnaeus the 'bird-cherry,' is encouraged in
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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At several points it forces its way forward between steep mountain walls that stand straight out of the water, and are entirely overgrown with honeysuckle and bird-cherry, mountain-ash and osier; and there isn't much that can be more delightful than to row out on the little dark river on a pleasant summer day, and look upward at all the soft green that fastens itself to the rugged mountain sides.
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The topmost step, which lies nearest Småland, is mostly covered with poor soil and small stones, and no trees except birches and bird-cherry and spruce – which can stand the cold on the heights, and are satisfied with little – can thrive there.
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Branches of bloom-laden bird-cherry trees peep in at my window, and now and again the breeze bestrews my writing-table with their white petals.
A Hero of Our Time 1916
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It was already grown head-high in weeds and wild flowers, and saplings of bird-cherry, which spring up wherever fire has passed.
The Hidden Children 1899
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