18 LETTERS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 
trap, and picked off: near a bushel was gathered. 
I suppose you have heard enough of the dis- 
agreeable qualities and tormenting propensities 
of our little enemies, though I have told you but 
a very small part of them. In my next letter I 
shall take a less gloomy view of the subject, in 
the consideration of the benefits they bestow on 
us ; till then adieu. 
