5* 
HYMENOETERA. 
Some butchers hang up before their (hop a calf’s 
li ver, or any tender meat; the wafps come in quell 
of this delicate food, and purfue the blue-bottle 
flies, from whofe eggs are produced the maggots.that 
fpoil meat; the only advantage we can derive from 
wafps. 
Vespa in ramis arbo-rum nidifca7is : Aerial Wasps . 
Thefe are the fmallefl fpecies. 
Their nefl is faflened to the branch of a tree with 
a kind of band, and is in bignefs from the fize of an 
orange down to that of an egg. Wood, reduced to 
paper, is the material part of it, which, if it were of 
a ruddy colour, might be taken for a large opening, 
rofe. It is covered over with a varnifh, impenetra¬ 
ble by water. One of thofe nefts was neither moifl- 
ened nor impaired by that element* 
GENUS 8.—APIS, BEE. 
There are various fpecies, which build in different 
manners. Some live in fociety; others dwell and 
work in folitude, building the cradles of their family; 
as the leaf-cutting bee does with the rofe-leaf; the 
upholsterer with the gaudy tapeftry of the corn-rofe 
the mason-bee with a plafier; the wood-piercer with 
fa w-dull. 
* 
The under-fides of their hindmofl thighs, which 
refemble a kind of brufh, ferve to gather the fine 
powder 
