The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering and preserving objects of natural history, etc / [Anon].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1772
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering and preserving objects of natural history, etc / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![diviflonyte;). In the day when the funis warm, butterflies (x) are feen on many forts of trees] ihrubs, plants, and flowers. Moths (y) may be feen in the day time, fitting on walls, pales, trunks of trees, infhades, out-houfes, dry holes, and crevices; on fine evenings they fly plenti¬ fully about the places they inhabit in the day¬ time: fome (z) are feen flying in the day time over the flowers of honey-fuckles and other plants with tubular flowers. Infefls of this ipecies feldom fit to feed, but continue vibrat- ing on tne wing, while they thruft the tongue or probofcis into the flower. IVB Infects or this clafs (a) are found in woods (b), hedges, meadows, fand-banks, walls, pales, fruits, ana umbelliferous flowers •, fome (c) fly about lakes and rivers in the day. v . 1 fe fifth aivirion yd) including wafps (e)y bees (/), &c. may be feen about hedges (jr)y flirubs, flowers, and fruits. Wafps and bees are the only winged infe&s that have any great degree LEPIDOPTERA. (») Fapilio, butterfiy. (y) Phalama, moth, (z) Sphinx, hanvk-moth. {a) NEUROPTERA. (6) Myrmeleon, hemerobius parl-Jly. Raphidia, camel fly. (,) Libel!da, dragon-fly. Ephemera, may-fly. Phryganea, fpringfly. (d) HYMENOPl ERA. (e) Vefpa, waflp. (f\ •Apis, bee. (g) Tenth redo, fa<wfly. Sirex, tailed-wafp. Ichneumon, ichneumon fly. Sphex, ichneumon-wa/p. Vefpa, Apis. 1 (h) Mutilla,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515555_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
