Emma Sarah Hutchinson was a British, Victorian, lepidopterist who authored the 1879 book Entomology and Botany as Pursuits for Ladies and published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation.
12 Facts About Emma Hutchinson
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Emma Hutchinson reared butterflies and moths from eggs and her work contributed to understanding of the Lepidoptera life cycle.
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Emma Hutchinson devoted much of her life to the study butterflies and moths, the insect order Lepidoptera.
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Emma Hutchinson became known during her lifetime for her skills in rearing butterflies and moths from eggs.
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Emma Hutchinson bred the pinion-spotted pug moth for 31 years.
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Emma Hutchinson's work contributed to a better understanding of the life cycle of Lepidoptera.
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Emma Hutchinson corresponded with well-known entomologists such as Edward Newman, Henry Doubleday, William Buckler, and Henry Tibbats Stainton.
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Emma Hutchinson had studied the habits of the comma for 50 years and put forward the thesis that its decline in Kent was due to the burning of the hop vine after harvest, destroying the larvae and pupae.
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Emma Hutchinson participated in efforts to reintroduce the comma to parts of England, including Surrey, by collecting comma larvae and pupae in Herefordshire and introducing them into the wild elsewhere.
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Emma Hutchinson's son Thomas, a solicitor, was a noted naturalist and eventually President of the Woolhope Society.
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Emma Hutchinson died at Grantsfield on 10 December 1905, aged 85.
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Emma Hutchinson's notebooks are held in the library of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club in Hereford.