Of Mites'. 97 
not only cheefe, but alfo all forts of dried flefh, filh, 
fruits, and grain, and almoft every thing befides that has 
a certain degree of moifture, without being over-wet. 
Fig. 164. reprefents a fmall hair of a mite as delineated 
by Mr. Leeuwenhoek, which a certain gentleman com¬ 
pared to an Indian or Japan cane \ with feveral joints, 
and faid it appeared to him through the microfcope as 
if (harp twigs were fprouting out of each joint. And 
fig. 163. reprefents another hair or brittle of a mite mag¬ 
nified, which was fpicated, or bearded like, the ear on 
the feed-beard of fome grafs. Every brittle on its body 
and legs had the fame formation; yet all mites are not 
lb 3 for of feven or eight which were inclofed together, 
but one of them was found whofe briftles were all of this 
make, in the reft the horns only were fpicated. 
Their mouths open horizontally to the right and left. 
Tike that of a wafp; feveral of them being fhut up to¬ 
gether without food for fome days, fome were found 
dead, and the furvivors preying on them; by which 
means their manner of feeding k was obferved, which is 
very remarkable 5 for they thrutt one mandible forwards, 
and draw the other backwards at the fame time, and thus 
they do alternately j fo that they feem to grind their food. 
After feeding they munch or chew the cud. 
Mr. Leeuwenhoek hath obferved'that mites in cheefe 
turn into aurelias, and from thence to flies $ when they 
turn into aurelias 1 they are inclofed in a thin tranfparent 
membrane, which in fome meafure fcreens them from the 
intuits of the maggots that fwarm in cheefes. He alfo 
obferved fome of the flies produced from thefe cheefe- 
worms, that he kept in a glafs tube in which he had put 
H cheefe 
1 Power’s Micro. No. 333. k Ibid. No. 2S4. 
No. 202.' 
1 Ibid. 
