78 OF THE SENSES OF 
while those propagated on the poplar would not eat 
the leaves of the sallow. 
It is well known that the Antler Moth,* which 
devours a considerable variety of grasses, and that 
to such an extent as almost totally to consume some 
of the richest pastures of Sweden, is nevertheless so 
fastidious in its taste, as to reject most scrupulously 
the fox-tail grass, which in flavour so nearly resem- 
bles other grasses on which it feeds, that the most 
sensitive palate of man is incapable of distinguishing 
the difference. The larva of the Ringlet Butterflyt 
will only feed on the poa ;{ and the Gate-keeper § 
abstains from all other food but the dog’s-tail grass. || 
If we judge from circumstances, the taste in bees 
does not seem very perfect ; “ for,” says the elder 
Huber, “ contrary to the received opinion, they dis- 
play little choice in collecting honey ; nor do they 
testify greater nicety in the quality of the water 
which they drink, as the most corrupted marshes 
and ditches seem to be preferred to the most limpid 
streams, nay, even to dew itself. Nothing, there- 
fore, is more unequal than the quality of honey, the 
produce of one district differing from another, and 
the honey of spring being unlike that of autumn.” 
* Chareas Graminis of Stephens. 
+- ITipparchia Hyperanthus of Fabricius, 
{ Poa annua. 
§ Hipparchia pamphilus. 
|| Cynocerus cristatus. 
