- give us fb much trouble to deftroy them this, I will do what 
I at prefent can to fetisfis' you.Thefe Infects are undoubted* 
ly of a pecuHar fpeciesy although to look on them, they ap- 
pear in nothing different from the common fort, but they 
take their flight Hke Birds, which is particular to them. 
Thay are much about an Inch in length, of a Grey Colour^j 
The kft Year the Earth in fbme places was covered 4 fingers 
thick with tfem in the morning before the heat of the Sun 
was confiderable, but as fbon as it begun to be hot, they 
took wing and fell upon the Corn, eating up both leaf and 
ear, and that with fuch expedition, by reafon of their grea^ 
immber, that in three hours they would devour the Cora , 
of a whole field, which you will hardly conceive unlefs you 
had feen it, after which they again took wing and their 
fwarms were fb thick, that they covered the Sun like a 
Cloud, and were whole hours in paffing, Theyfkwa- 
gainft the Wiiia, and went over the Caftle which is very 
higli, and feas'd upoil another field of Corn which they de- 
Itroyed like die former. After having eaten up the Corn, 
.they fell upon the Vines, the PulCb, the Willows and even 
the Hej^p notwithftaiidi^^ Afterwards 
^about ttae end^^ ceafed flying, and copulated^ 
and t¥ie Female ftudk her tayle into the hard Eardi wiiere 
file caff a foam, and made therewith in the ground, a hole 
as big as that of a Goofe quill, and about an Inch long, 
fwhei:ein fti Md her .Eg^, which are mucb of the fi^.^ of 
MilTet leed,,'; t}lete , would be Ibmetimes 50 of diefe Eggs in 
a hole, wftich ^re to covered over with the lame Earth that 
the Water doe^not get in. After this all thefe Infects died and 
ftunS very: muck They begun this Year to hatch in the 
Month of JpHl^^ ^nd fome there are, that are not yet-hiatch- 
ed. In'M^cby'we thought upon deftroy ing theii- Eggs 
which ly^ riot abote a fingers b^^eadth in the Earthy and we 
took of them i8cj Quintals being 9 Tuns : it had been well 
if we had thouglit of this expedient fooner. Since their 
liatcfiirig tliiy" have faken abov^ 1 5 Tuns of the young Grafs- ; 
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