14 "December 1748. 



be faid of thofe mill-beetles, which < are* 

 found in the midft of the woods and de- 

 farts ? 



THE Englijh likewife call the Mill- 

 beetles 9 Cock-roaches, and the Dutch give 

 them the name of Kackerlack. The Swedes 

 in this country call them Brodoetare, or 

 Bread- eaters, on account of the damage 

 they do to the bread, which I^m going to 

 defcribe. Dr. Linnceus calls them B/afta 

 Orientalis. Many of the Swedes call them 

 likewife Kackerlack. They are not only 

 obferved in the houfes, but in the fiimmer 

 they appear often in the woods, and run 

 about the trees, which are cut down. Qn 

 bringing in all forts of old rotten blocks of 

 wood for fewel, in February, I difcovered 

 feveral cock-roaches fettled in them ; they 

 were at firft quite torpid, or as it were 

 dead ; but after lying in the room for 

 a while, they recovered, became very 

 lively, and began to run about. I after- 

 wards found very often, that when old rot- 

 ten wood was brought home in winter, and 

 cut in pieces for fewel, the cock-roaches 

 were got into it in numbers, and lay in it 

 in a torpid ftate. In the fame winter, a 

 fellow cut down a great dry tree, and was 

 about to fplit it. I then obferved in a 

 crack, feme fathoms above the ground, 

 5 feveral 



