Plague of Butterflies Visits Florence, Italy

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 7, 1873

Plague of Butterflies Visits Florence, Italy

FLORENCE, Italy, was recently visited by a plague of butterflies, an incident of rare occurrence. The insects came after night, and in such swarms that the street lamps gave little light. Fires were started in the streets by the police and citizens, in which the butterflies burned their wings, so that a half hour afterward the streets were covered with a layer of the little pests an inch thick. They were of a whitish color, and the streets looked as if there had been a snow-storm.