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that that Bee which is neareft day, although it be laft 
laid, is yet the firft hatched ^ and I ground my Conjecture 
upon this, that 'tis probable, that the Eggs in the 
Mother are all fit for laying, or equally ripe and for«» 
ward ('as we fay) at the time that the firft of them was 
laid , but are not therefore all laid by the Dam , 
until ftie has provided them of Meat and a Houfe^ 
each feparately y as is the nature oi Bees : and yer ia 
recompenfe, the warmth of her body , or rather the 
daily encreafing Heat oi the Summer-leafon, to which 
the Mother Bee is continually expofed, whiUl the firft 
laid Eggs are fheltred in their deep Channels ^ haftens 
their Vitality io much^ that they are hatched Worms, 
and begin to feed before the firft laid, and conieqoent- 
iy are firft perfeded into Bees. But this is conject- 
ure only, and not oblervation , and to this purpofe, 
let me obferve to you, that we are not always with- 
out our Viviporous Flyes , although in a much colder 
Region than Italy i The firft time I took notice of 
them, was the ±d. year of the Sicknels raging in 
bridge 1666. I have of this fort fome by me at pre- 
fent, which you may command, for I do not find 
them cut or defcribed either in j^ldrovandus or Mouf-- 
fet, though this fort of Fly be very frequent with us. 
And this was not the only ftrange Fhcenomenon, that 
I obferved among InfeUs^ befides other things of na- 
ture, particularly that year for being in Harveft-time 
at Bejfenburn in Camhridge-Jhire^ at the Houfe of Mr« 
W, J. he invited me along with him into the Fields, 
where. Cozen, fays he, I will fliew you a wonder ^ 
which, indeed, was fo to me, for lifting up the Bar- 
ly-Cochs with his Cane , there appeared millions of 
Maggots on the Corn Lands, and in their Bar-ns too, 
the Floor w^ould be covered with them that fell from 
the Carts. The Maggots were about half an loch 
long, no thicker than a Pigeons feather, of a white 
colour 
