520 SEASONS OF INSECTS. 
ferent species of Campanula various bees may be cap- 
tured enjoying a luxurious repose a . No vegetable pro- 
ductions abound more in insect inhabitants than the 
Fungi. In Agarics several Diptera are to be taken, many 
Aleochara?, Oxypori, &c. ; in Boleti, the various species of 
Mycctophagus ; in the arboreous ones, and under bark, 
more than one kind of Ips ; and in Auricidaria, as well 
as Boletus, the whole genus Cis. Upon living Vertebrate 
animals you must look for Pidices, Pedicidi, Nirmi, Acari, 
and many Diptera, as (Estrus, Tabanus, Stomoxys, and 
the Pupipara of Latreille ; and on the garden-snails for 
that curious genus Drilus, and some Acari b . The 
caterpillars and pupas of Lepidoptera, &c. will, as you 
have heard, furnish you with numerous ichneumons c . 
On dead animals you will find the various species of Sil- 
yhidcc, Nitidididce, Dermestida?, Byrrhida?, Chlolevida?, 
StaphiliniddB, Muscida?, &c. ; and in excrement, various 
Scarabceida, Histeridce, Apliodiadae, Spha?ridiadce, the 
Brachyptera in general, and several Diptera d . In pu- 
trescent roots and fruits, as the turnip, the cucumber, &c, 
you may also occasionally meet with rare Coleoptera. 
I must next say something upon the seasons of insects, 
and their times of appearance. Those that collect honey 
and pollen are generally among the first that proclaim 
the approach of spring ; and their appearance may be 
dated from the blossoming of certain trees and plants of 
common occurrence. Other plants, accompanied by pe- 
laps the nectar it produces. I have seen it employed upon wounded 
trees lapping the sap. a Mon. A]). Angl. ii. 172. 257. 
b See above, p. 491, note \ 
c Ibid. p. 219; and Vol. I. p. 2C7— . < Ibid. p. 256-. 
