Numbers noted as (PE:xx) refer to plates in the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies, by Paul Opler & Vichai Malikul (1998 edition) Numbers noted as (K:xx) refer to pages in the Kaufman Focus Guide to Butterflies of North America, by Jim Brock & Kenn Kaufman. Numbers noted as (W:xx) refer to pages in Caterpillars of Eastern North America, by David Wagner, 2005. DE: occurs in Delaware. FL: occurs in Florida.
Confidence votes 94.7K. The Bubonic Plague originated in China. It was spread by the fleas carried by rats going aboard ships and they were transported to Italy, Greece and France, when the rats left the ships entering cities and gave us the Bubonic Plague.he Bubonic Plague spread from China and East Asia to Europe through the Silk Road and arrived in the Ukraine. It also spread from fleas upon rats aboard merchant ships, and i â¦ s believed to have spread from Sicily.
By the mid-fourteenth century, only the rich could afford to bathe during the cold Winter months, and most of the population was dirty most of the time, even if they did not enjoy being so. The Black Death seems to have arisen somewhere in Asia and was brought to Europe from the Genoese trading station of Kaffa in the Crimea (in the Black Sea). The story goes that the Mongols were besieging Kaffa when a sickness broke out among their forces and compelled them to abandon the siege.