Poisonous plants and African death's-head hawkmoth, cromolitografo, publicado en 1878 - Ilustración de stock

Poisonous plants (left to right): Thorn apple (Datura stramonium); Banewort (Atropa belladonna); Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger). in the foreground the African death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos). Due to its way of life and the imposing appearance with the "skull" on the thorax, it was considered ominous for a long time. Chromolithograph after a drawing by Hermann Wagner (German painter, 19th century), published in 1878.