OBSERVATIONS ON INSECTS 

 AND VERMES. 



INSECTS IN GENERAL. 



THE day and night insects occupy the annuals alternately: 

 the papilios, nmscse, and apes, are succeeded at the close of 

 day by phakenae, earwigs, woodlice, &c. In the dusk of the 

 evening, when beetles begin to buzz, partridges begin to call ; 

 these two circumstances are exactly coincident. 



Ivy is the last flower that supports the hymenopterous and 

 dipterous insects. On sunny days quite on to November, 

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

 disappear, probably retire under the shelter of its leaves, con- 

 cealing themselves between its fibres and the trees which it 

 entwines. WHITE. 



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, lepismae in cupboards and among sugar, 

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

 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 (T suppose tipulse and empedes) appear 



