Wrote Letter L-261 of 1695-07-12 to Maarten Etienne van Velden about the metamorphosis of caterpillars and of parasitic larvae coming out of a dead caterpillar

Date: 
July 12, 1695
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-261
Collected Letters number: 
148
Collected Letters volume: 
11

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren

Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter about the metamorphosis of caterpillars and the necessity that each of them individually forms a cocoon for this. Parasitic larvae coming out of a dead caterpillar and their metamorphosis.