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I mull: however further obferve, notwithftanding 
thefe infedts have many enemies, they are not with- 
out friends ; if we may confider thofe as fuch, who 
are very officious in their attendance, for the good 
things they expedl to reap thereby. The ant and 
the bee are both of this kind, colleding the honey 
in which the Aphides abound j but with this dif- 
ference, that the ants are conftant vilitors, the bee 
only when flowers are fcarce. To which let me alfo 
add, that the ants will fuck in the delicious nedarj 
while the Aphides are in the ad • of difcharging it 
from the anus ; but the bees only colled it from 
the leaves, on which this honev^dew has fallen. 
SECTION III.. 
In the autumn, I find three more generations of 
Aphides to be produced; two of which make their 
appearance in the month of Augufl:, and the third 
ufually before the middle of September. As the 
two fir ft differ in no refped from thofe which we 
meet with in fummcr, it would be wafting time to 
dwell any longer upon them; but the third, differing 
greatly from all the reft, demands our giving it a 
more ferious attention. Though all the Aphides 
which have hitherto appeared were females, in this 
tenth generation are found feveral male infeds ; not 
that they are by any means fo numerous as the fe- 
males, being only produced by a fmall part of the 
former generation. To which I muft further add, 
that I have obferved thofe which produce males, 
previoufly to have produced a number of females j 
w’hich in all refpeds refembling thofe already de- 
fcribedj 
