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Sect. XIV. 3 



OF PLANTS 



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tloii. If by fo doing he happens to feel an aphis, he immediately feizei 

 it by the back, lifts it up and poifes it in the air, as if to prevent i 

 from liberating itfelf by its ftruggles againft the furface of the leaf, o 

 that it may fall more eafily into the cavity of his mouth. In this po 

 fition he holds it, while he pierces it, and fucks the juice out of th 

 body 5 which having done, he drops the Ik 



with his little black tongue, contrads his head, and drops it down 

 thus refting in perfea repofe for fome time, after which he repeats th 

 fame adions. But if he is in the midil: of plenty, he feldom 

 himfelf this trouble, but waits till an aphis touches him, wh 

 immediately turns his head round, and with fatal certainty feizes him 

 poizing him as befo 



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For the purpofe of feeing what fly was produced from th 



pillar, 1 procured him food for about ten days. During this time h 



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mber of aphifes, and grew to about an inch in length 



hen he left off 



to 



6led himfelf to about half his form 



length, fixed himfelf to the box by a little gluten, which he difch 



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ed from h 

 falis 



th, and without cafting a Ikin changed to a chry 



In this ftate he lay about ten or eleven days, at the end of which 



time he burft h 



fio-ure is a good reprefen 



d came out a beautiful fly, of 



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The caterpillar with an aphis in his mouth 



No. I.. 



No. 2. The chryfalis open at one end. 

 No. 3. The fly. 



Another enemy to the aphis is faid to be a beautiful fmall fpotted 

 beetle, called a lady-bird by the people. Several of thefe were feen 

 on the nut-leaves, and are believed firft to appear there in their larva 



ftate, 

 laftly 



and to feed on the aphis j they then change to a chryfalis, and 

 to a fmall wing-fheathed beetle ; and finally, 1 fuppofe, they 



bore holes into th 



th, as would appear from their pofleffi 



fheaths to their wings, and that they there depofit their eggs to be 



hatched 



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