M I N U T E S 



Auo, 



TURN'EP 

 CATER- 

 PILLARS. 



TJENTHREDO 



OF 

 THE TURXEP 



perhaps been very beneficial : filling the bot- 

 tom of it with ilraw, and, when the caterpil- 

 lars were in furhcient numbers among the ftraw, 

 fetting fire to it, feems to be a late, though an 

 ingenious improvement. 



- AUG. 20. The fir ft of this month I gathered, 

 alive, eight or ten of the yellow flies fuppofed 

 to produce the turnep- caterpillars, alib a par- 

 cel of the caterpillars themfelves. 



The flies were eafily caught by beating them 

 from the leaf on to the ground, where they lie, 

 apparently lifelefs, time enough to be picked 

 up. Brought them home in a fmall box, and put 

 them into a drinking-glafs, covered with per- 

 forated paper. 



Before I could get a third fly into the glafs, 

 the two firft, happening to be a male and fe- 

 male, were in the aft of copulation ; and be- 

 fore I could get in the whole, two more were 

 in the fame amorous fituation. The party con- 

 fiding of nearly an equal number of males and 

 females, an a'imofl: incefTant ardour prevailed, till 

 the clofe of the evening; and, fetting them in 

 the fun the next morning,, their amours were 

 renewed. 



Sufpcfting them to be of the genus fen- 

 tlredo, and being willing to difcover the two 



ferrated 



