33 i 0BSERTATI02sS 01^ INSECTS AND VEllMES. 



The royal pack, accustomed to have the deer turned out 

 before them, never drew the coverts with any address and 

 spirit, as many people that were present observed; and 

 this remark the event has proved to be a true one : for as a 

 person was lately pursuing a pheasant that was wing-broken, 

 in Harteley Wood, he stumbled upon the stag by accident, 

 and ran in upon him as he lay concealed amidst a thick brake 

 of brambles and bushes. White. 



OBSEEYATIONS ON INSECTS AND VEEMES. 



INSECTS IN GENEEAL. 



The day and night insects occupy the annuals alternately ; 

 the papilios, musccB, and apes, are succeeded at the close oi 

 day by phalcencB, earwdgs, woodlice, &c. In the dusk of the 

 evening, when beetles begin to buzz, partridges begin to calh 

 these two circumstances are exactly coincident. 



Ivy is the last flower that supports the hymenopterous 

 and dipterous insects. On sunny days, quite on to Novem- 

 ber, they swarm on trees covered with this plant ; and when 

 they disappear, probably retire under the shelter of its leaves, 

 concealing themselves between its fibres and the trees which 

 it entwines. AVhite. 



This I have often observed, having seen bees and other 

 winged insects swarming about the flowers of the ivy very 

 late in the autumn. Markwick. 



Spiders, woodlice, Jepismcs in cupboards and am.ong sugar, 

 some empedes, gnats, flies of several species, some phalcrna 

 in hedges, earth-worms, &c., are stirring at all times, when 

 winters are mild; and are of great service to those soft- 

 billed birds that never leave us. 



On every sunny day, the winter through, clouds of insects, 

 usually called gnats (I suppose tipula and empedes), appear 

 Bporting and dancing over the tops of the evergreen trees m 



