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burn themselves, and you will find abundance of 

 them dead in the morning. 



Earwigs, Wasps, Gnats, Hornets, and Flies 



Earwigs are very numerous, and injurious to 

 fruit, and the way to destroy them is, by placing 

 hoofs, horns, crabs or lobsters claws on branches 

 of trees into which they will resort; early in the 

 morning take them gently off and shake them in- 

 to a tub of water, or on the ground, and tread on 

 them. Or, cut a melon or apple, lay it to the 

 ear, cut a hole in it, and lay on that side, and it 

 will come into the apple. 



Wasps and Hornets. 



Wasps and hornets are destructive, to bees arid 

 fruits, &c. In spring or summer, before they are 

 increased, destroy the old ones, for a few increases 

 to a multitude. 



Wasps, Gnats, and Earwigs. 



Scald them, if in the thatch of a hollow tree, 

 and smoke them with any stinking combustible 

 matter. 



To destroy Wasps. 



Put pieces of lighted brimstone rags into the 

 wasps holes, where the nest lies, and presently 

 fling a spade full of earth over the holes. 

 Wasps stinging. 



Apply a copper halfpenny, and hold it for a 

 little space, and it will ease the pain and prevent 

 swelling. 



Gnats and Flies. Shut your windows close in 

 summer towards the evening, and smoke your 

 rooms with brimstone, and burn straw in them, 

 or they will fly into the flame, or be choaked. 

 Or the smoke of burnt fern drives away gnats, 

 serpents, and other venomous creatures. Or 

 loose strife does the same. 



