STRANGE DWELLINGS. 
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wood, or the abundance of turpentine with which the knots in 
deal are saturated. This is the more astonishing, because 
turpentine is mostly fatal to insects, and a little spirit of 
turpentine in a box will effectually keep off all moths and 
beetles. 
In these burrows the larvae change into the pupal state, and 
there remain until the following summer, when they emerge 
in hosts, ready to deposit their eggs upon the corn, and raise 
up fresh armies of devourers. Another singular fact is, that 
after these caterpillars have lived for so long upon corn, their 
tastes should change so suddenly as to induce them to take to 
wood, and wood moreover which is never free from turpentine, 
however well it may be seasoned. 
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The last of our burro wers is the Honey-comb Moth, be- 
longing to the genus Galleria. Two species of this genus 
are known in England, both of which are plentiful in this ! 
country. 
These moths live in the comb of the hive bee, and when 
once they have succeeded in depositing their eggs, the combs 
are generally doomed. The envenomed stings of the bees are i 
useless against these little pests, for though their bodies are soft 
they take care to conceal themselves in a stout silken tube, and 
their heads are hard, horny, and penetrable by no sting borne 
by bee. I once had a very complete case of honey-comb I 
utterly destroyed by the Galleria moths, which drew their 
silken tubes through and through the combs, ate up even 
my beautiful royal cells, devoured all the bee-bread, and con- 
verted the carefully chosen specimens into an undistinguish- 
able mass of dirty silk, debris and moths, both dead and 
living. I 
Although there are still in my list many names of burrowing 
insects which have not yet been described, it is necessary that 
we should take our leave of the burrowers, and proceed to the f 
next chapter. 
