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Sect. XIV. 2. 6. 



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ne on each other, where the foliage was de- 



melolontha, which hu 



flroyed, like bees in a (warm. And to have found in the fame vear, 

 as it lay dead in a field near Chederfield, a true locuft, like a very 



wings; which 



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pre 



large grafs-hopper with very long and broad 



fcrved in fpirits, and was informed, that many of them were found 



in other parts of England about the fame time. 



All thefe noxious animals might be deftroyed or diminifhed by 

 encouraging the breed of fmall hedge-birds, and perhaps of larks, and 



of rooks, by not taking their nefts. I have obferved, that houie (par- 

 rows deftroy the May-chaffer, eating out the central part of it ; and 

 am told that turkeys and rooks do the fame; which I thence con- 

 elude might be as grateful food, if properly cooked, as the locufts or 



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termites of the eaft. And probably the large grub, or larva of it, 

 which the rooks pick up in following the plow, is as delicious as the 

 grub called groogroo, and a large caterpillar, which feeds on the palm; 

 both of which are roafted and eaten in the Weft Indies. The various 



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fpecies of linnets carry fmall caterpillars to their gaping young ; and 



lils, and on that account to be profit- 



dgrehos's are faid to devour fn 



& 



o 



ably kept in gardens. 1 



When a fevere froft occurs, before the ground is covered with 

 fnow, thofe infe6ls, which do not penetrate deeply into the earth dur- 



their hybernation, as the (hell-lcfs 



or 



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are liable to 



be deftroyed, and probably many of thelarvas of the fern-chaffer and 

 May-chaffer, as is (een by their diniiniflied numbers in the enfuing 



feafon. 



In China the aurelia of the filk-worm, after the filk is wound off, 



and the white earth-grub, and the larva of the fphinx moth, furnifli 



he tabl 



d are faid to be del 



ffy to Ch 



the fi 



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Neverthelefs all the caterpillar tribes may not be equally 



as in this climate the hairy caterpillars, if laid between 



where the Ikin is tender, I have obferved to produce an itching, and 



leave fome of their pointed bridles in 



theik 



And M. Vaill 



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