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COLEOPTERA. 
It is difficult to deftroy the grubs, except by 
plowing the ground, to expofe them to the birds. 
Some farmers take the pains to dig deep wherever 
the rooks point them out by their attempts to reach 
them. In the winged (late, to fhake the trees at 
noon (when the infefts are afleep under the leaves) 
and gather them up, is the bed method. 
The fore legs, which are very fhort, are calculated 
for burrowing in the ground, where the female de- 
pofits her eggs. 
The antennae are very curious; folding like ^ 
fan, or the leaves of a book. * 
Moft animals will eat them with avidity in the 
grub, and in the perfeft (fate ; a providential cir- 
cumdance, as they are fo hurtful. 
Rose Chafer, or Green Beetle . 
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This is one of the mod beautiful in England; it 
is green, gilded, fauratusJ and met with upon 
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flowers; particularly the rofe and piony. The larva 
injures the roots of plants. - 
Dung Beetle . 
This makes pellets of excrement, in which it ,depo~ 
fits its eggs, and is thence called pilitlarius j as the 
round balls referable pills. 
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Asparagus 
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