NATURAL HISTORY CALENDAR. 7 111 
lives, as all are on errands of love to their kind, but of mischief to 
the Agriculturist. 
hen the May Flower lable fl in minde” 
—blooms, and the willows hang out their golden catkins, we shall hear 
the hum of the wild bee, as 
“ Murmurs the blossomed boughs around. 
That clothe the garden’s southern bound, ad 
- the insect hunter will reap a rich harvest of rarities. Seek no 
n the abdomen of various wild Bees, such as Andrena, for that ete 
anid of all our insects, the Tasai Childreni.* cae curious laryvæ 
of the Oil Beetle, Meloe, may be found abundantly on the bodies of: 
various species of Bombu us, Andrena and Halictus, ial their heads 
plunged in between the segments of the bee’s body. 
The beautiful moth, Adela, with its immensely long antenne, may 
be seen, with other smaller moths, feeding on the blossoms of the 
willow. nts wake from their winter’s sleep and throw up their 
hillocks, and the ‘‘ thriving pismire” issues from his vaulted galleries 
constructed in some decaying log or stump, while the angle worms 
emulate their six aaa a During the mild days of March, 
ere the snow has mel 
“The dandy Butterfly 
All exquisitely drest,” 
will visit our gardens. Such are various kinds of Vanessa, Grapta and 
Melitea. The beautiful Brephos infans flies before the snow disap- 
Tenues 
will celebrate the coming of Spring, tiene his Choral ‘dance. Such is 
Trichocera hyemalis, which may be see ilight 
on mild evenings. Many Flies are now on the wing, such as Tachina 
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found elsewhere, assemble in quantities about the stumps of these 
trees, from which the sap oozes in March and April.—A. S. P. 
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See an account of this curious insect in the Proceedings of the Essex Institute, 
ae. 130 1865. a o 
