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673 
Attitudes (defensive) of insects, ii. 
229. 
Aure/ia, i. 65. 
Baits, (insect) for Fishes, i. 286. 
Barley, destroyed by insects, i. 
173. 
Beans and Peas, destroyed by in- 
sects, i. 175. 
Bee, carpenter, i. 436 : clothier, i. 
435: leaf-cutter, 36, 194, 442: 
mason, 438 : poppy, 440. 
Bees (hive), affection for their 
young, i. 376: combs, 481 : fa- 
bles respecting, ii. 120: females, 
122: larvae of workers, how 
turned to females, 127: weight 
and bulk, 126: jealousy and 
battles of the female or queen, 
140: her appearance how 
retarded, 144 : homage paid 
her, 149 : effects produced by 
the loss of her, 150: sound 
emitted by her, 383 : fecun- 
dation, 169; iv. 167: swarms, 
ii. 158: males, number of, 168 : 
slaughter of", 170: workers, 
tongue of, 174: wax -pockets, 
175: collection of honey and 
pollen, 175: excursions, 184: 
scouts, 186: ventilation of their 
hive, 190: language, 197: an- 
ger and battles, 199, 204 : ene- 
mies, i. 163 ; ii. 205 : tempe- 
rature, 209, 441 ; iv. 77 : modi- 
fications of their instinct,ii. 475: 
degree of intellect, 489, 507; iv. 
32: diseases, 21 1: kindsof,i.330. 
Beetle, pertinacity of one, ii. 232 : 
asparagus, i. 192: bacon, i. 
228 : bloody-nose, ii. 244, 317 : 
burying, i. 352 ; iv. 262 : dark- 
ling, ii. 239: death-watch, i. 36; 
ii. 381 : lily, 257 : meal-worm, 
i. 227 : oil, ii. 247 : poplar, 242: 
rhinoceros, iv. 1 1 : rove,i. 228 : 
ii. 234, 211. turnip, i. 187 : vine 
204 : iv. 5 1 2. 
Beetles, blister, i. 38, 315 ; ii. 224 : 
bombardier, 243; iv. 134, 149: 
Capricorn, i. 235, 302 ; ii. 387 : 
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carnivorous, iv. 138: carrion, ii. 
239: dung or pill, i. 351; ii. 
231, 254; iii. 441, 455 : elastic, 
ii. 313: herbivorous, iv. 138: 
knot-grass, 169: petalocerous, 
iv. 408 : lamellicorn, iv. 251, 
308, 435: predaceous, i. 271: 
ii. 3)7; iv. 401, 418: rove, ii. 
234, 241, 302: stag, 221, 224 j 
iv. 197: tiger, iii. 152: timber 
and labyrinth, i. 212, 235, 452; 
ii. 232 : tortoise, ii. 258: water, 
i. 271 ; ii. 359 ; iii. 121, 455; 
iv. 263. 
Bile-vessels of insects, iv. 109. 
Black-jack, what, i. 187. 
Blood, showersof, causedby moths, 
i. 34 : of insects, iv. 85, 97. 
Boatman (water), i. 107, 275. 
Bonnet, iv. 455. 
Book-crab, iv. 236. 
Books, attacked by insects, i. 239. 
Bots, i. 147. 
Boxes (store), described, iv. 537. 
breeding, iv. 553. 
Brain, Acarus found in, i. 141 : of 
insects, iv. 8. 
Breese, i. 147. 
Bridle, spinal, iv. IS. 
Bug, bed,i. 106 : chintz, 171 : field, 
affection for its young, i. 359 : 
harvest, 103 : red, 185 : water, 
i. 275 ; ii. 360 : wheel, i. 108. 
Bugs, galls of, i. 451 : their scent, 
ii. 240. 
Buprestis of the ancients, what, 
i. 155. 
Butcher Bird, i. 288. 
Butterflies* blues, iii. 650: cop- 
pers, 650: fritillaries, 252: 651: 
skippers, ii. 301 : Trojans and 
Grecians, iii. 302 : mode in 
which their caterpillars suspend 
themselves when about to as- 
sume the pupa, 206. 
Butterfly, admiral, iii. 84, 114: 
Adonis, i. 41; iii. 650: brimstone, 
259: cabbage, i. 189; ii. 11; 
iv. 24, 228 : Glanville fritillary, 
iii. 114: hawthorn, 98: large 
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