2 22 Of the Wee v I L. 
Grain, either to feek its Food or depofit it® 
Eggs there. 
By keeping thefe Creatures in Glafs 
Tubes, with fome few Grains of Wheat, 
their Copulation has been difcovered, and 
likewife their Manner of Generation, which 
is thus.—- * The Female perforates a Grain 
of Wheat, and therein depofits a tingle ob¬ 
long Egg, or two Eggs at moil (a Grain of 
Wheat being unable to maintain above one 
or two of the young Brood when hatched), 
and this the does to five or fix Grains every 
Day for feveral Days together. Thefe Eggs, 
not above the Size of a Grain of Sand, in 
about feven Days produce an odd Sort of 
white Maggots, which wriggles its Body 
pretty much, but is fcarce able to move from 
Place to Place, as indeed it has no Occafion, 
being happily lodged by its Parent where it 
has Food enough. This Maggot turns into 
an Aurelia , which in about fourteen Days 
comes out a perfect Weevil . 
As many People are unacquainted with 
the Weevil, aPibture of it is given Plate XIII. 
Fig. XII. 
Wevils when in the Egg, or not come to 
their perfect State, are often devoured by 
Mites. 
* ^ Lseuwen. Epift. de fexto Augujli 1687. ad Reg. 
Societ. 
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