. Insect transformations . erpillar sometimesbreaking open and destroying fifty or sixty cells, * See Insect Architecture, p. 231. + R aumur, Mem., vol. ii, p. 486, &c. X Stephenss Catalogue, vol. ii, p. 213. § Keys, Treatise on Bees, p. 178, edit. 1814, RAVAGES OF CATERPILLAHS. 223 Wherever it penetrates it always fabricates a hollowtubulated web, in which, as a rabbit in its burrow,it can very swiftly pass from one part to another,and speedily run back again. It tills the wholecomb with such webs, and turns ilstlf in themevery way into various Ixudinijs and windings; sothat the bees are not
. Insect transformations . erpillar sometimesbreaking open and destroying fifty or sixty cells, * See Insect Architecture, p. 231. + R aumur, Mem., vol. ii, p. 486, &c. X Stephenss Catalogue, vol. ii, p. 213. § Keys, Treatise on Bees, p. 178, edit. 1814, RAVAGES OF CATERPILLAHS. 223 Wherever it penetrates it always fabricates a hollowtubulated web, in which, as a rabbit in its burrow,it can very swiftly pass from one part to another,and speedily run back again. It tills the wholecomb with such webs, and turns ilstlf in themevery way into various Ixudinijs and windings; sothat the bees are not only pcr|)lc.\cd and disturbed intheir work, but they frequently entangle themselvesby the claws and hairs of their legs in those webs, andthe whole hive is destroyed. The other species he accuses of being not onlydestructive to the wax, but to the bees themselves. I saw one of these little caterpillars, he says, whilst it was still small, and was breaking the cellsin which the pupa of the bees lie, and eating the wax. Trar< •■ lioneycomh mo(hs. -, the mule iiiolh (Gat-Uria ahtaria); rf, ti, d, rf, EHlleiie9 Of the wax-eatiig tater-pillar, c, sren nt the nitrance; /, the «ame ejiposed ; g, luCOCOOa; A, the moth (Galitria 224 INSECT TRANSFORMATIONS there, cover up these pupse with its excrements, sothat they could scarcely be known. He adds withgreat naVveti , I tave learned these matters muchagainst my inclination, and have been full of wrathagainst the insect for thus defiling and killing somebee pupse which I had designed to observe in theirchanges* M. Bazin, a friend of Reaumurs, discovered thecaterpillar of a moth of this order feeding on choco-late, of which it seemed very choice, always pre-ferring that which had the finest flavour. The mothis sometimes produced in September, and some-times in the beginning of the following is probable that, like the cheese-fly, it might, indefault
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