Curious Facts in the History of Insects, Including Spiders and Scorpions |
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Africa ancient Anct animal Antiq Ants appearance Baird's Cyclop Barbados Beasts Bees beetle bite blood body Brazil bugs Butterflies called Cantharides caterpillars China Cicada cloud Coccus color creature Crickets Cucuji cure curious Cyclop death destroyed devour Dict eaten eggs Egypt Egyptians England feet fire Fleas flies Gnats ground head hives Holl honey Horapollo horses Ibid Indians inhabitants insects Introd Jamaica kill kind King ladies Lady-bird larva larvæ Lice light Linnæus living Locusts London Mantis mentions Moth natives never night noise numbers observed Owen's Geoponika pain person Pliny Plutarch Quot rain remarkable remedy resemblance Scarabæus Scorpion Serpents silk Silk-worms sometimes species Spider sting Strabo stung superstition supposed Surinam swarm of Bees tells Theatr tion Topsel's Hist Trans Trav Travels trees Wasps wings worms Zool