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1827 J. F. StephensCatal. Brit. Insects II. 102 Mullein M[oth].
1993 Garden Answers May 24/4 Last summer a verbascum..was suddenly devastated by a large, colourful caterpillar which turned out to be the larva of the mullein moth.