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within the bloflbms, when changed from a Maggot into a flying 

 animal, was provided with two Ihells or cafes, folded lengthw fe 

 over its wings, as we fee infedls of the beetle tribe ; moreover, the 

 fore part of its head was furnifhed with a long probofcis or trunk, dc- 

 iigned by Nature, as I fuppofe, for perforating the buds of the blof- 

 foms before they were blown, and through the hole to introduce 

 an egg, whereby the egg and the Maggot produced from it, might 

 be protedled from its enemies, particularly birds and pifmires ; this 

 probofcis, about the middle of it, was provided with two horns. 



I again viiited my garden, where many of the trees were yet in 

 bloom, but neither on the trees, nor on tlic flowers, could I difco- 

 ver any of thefe flying infe<fls, which had been brought to their 

 perfe<9;ion while carried about in my pocket ; though in fome of 

 the flowers which I opened, I found Maggots, and in others cry- 

 fales, yet not in one a flying animal ; whence I concluded, that fo 

 foon as from a cryfalis they arrived at that Hate, they forfook the 

 blofl'oms and took their flight. 



At the times when I took the Maggots I have before mentioned, 

 out of the flowers, they twifted and bent their bodies many ways ; 

 but I never law them move progrefllvely ; for when 1 placed them 

 upon a paper, they could not change their place, but rolled them- 

 felves up in a kind of ring, for thefe creatures have no feet; there- 

 fore, each ISIaggot mull be placed in a bloflbm by itfelf, and cannot 

 injure more than one flower. 



One thing fecmed to me very remarkable, namely, that all the 

 food which this Maggot took from the bloflbm (at leaft, as fiir as I 

 could perceive), became part of its body, for when I examined the 

 flowers wherein the cryfalis had lain, I could never difcover any 

 appearance of excrements, but only the fkin loft behind by the ani- 

 mal upon its transformation. 



In thefe my obfervations I could not but take notice how Nature, 

 that provident parent, has created this animal fo as not only to derive 

 its fupport and growth from fo fmall a portion of aliment, and in fo 

 little time, but alfo by appointing it to be placed within the bloflbms 



