CHAP. III. PASSIONS OF INSECTS. AFFECTION. 83 



once smoked out of their hive, the queen, with many 

 of her followers, flew away : upon this, the bees which 

 remained behind immediately sent forth a most plaintive 

 cry ; which was succeeded by a cheerful humming, when 

 their sovereign was again restored to them. The pas- 

 sion of love, too, as well as fear, anger, and rejoicing, 

 seems, in insects, as in birds, to come forth in song. 

 The grasshopper and Cicada (C. Italica,fig. 20.) tribes 



are particularly famed for these amorous ditties, which 

 are often so loud, monotonous, and deafening, in warm 

 countries, during the meridian heat, as to produce any- 

 thing but pleasure. These sounds, however, proceed 

 alone from the males ; the females not possessing that 

 particular apparatus (a) by which they are produced. 



(103.) The affection of insects for their young is very 

 conspicuous ; but in the care which they take to lay their 

 eggs in such substances as will afterwards afford them 

 fitting sustenance, we shall discern more the effects of 

 instinct than of maternal affection. Many instances, 

 however, may be adduced, in which this natural pas- 

 sion is in operation. The mason wasp of Europe and 

 America (fig. 21.) insinuates a living caterpillar into 

 the cell in which it deposits its egg ; in the course of 

 a few days, it incloses another in the same way ; and 

 thus continues these supplies of food until the young 

 one has attained its full growth. The common earwig 



