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A41365	Of insects Johannes Goedaert ; done into English and methodized with the addition of notes ; the figures etched upon copper by Mr. Fr Place ...; Metamorphosis naturalis. English	Goedaert, Johannes, 1617-1668.; Place, Francis, 1647-1728.; Lister, Martin, 1638?-1712.	1682 (1682)	Wing G1003; ESTC R14347	76,691	161

the Noble Bees by whom they are governed and this Bombylius or Master Bee is very old and in body Greater then the rest like as the King of the little Bees do's excell the rest in magnitude and shew But this is destitute of Wings and Hair where the rest abound with White Yellow and Black Hair and are rough this is alltogether Bald like naked Birds or as is painted on the back part of the Head moreover he is Black and shining as Polisht Ebony sometimes he coms to look upon the Works in which the Commonality is busied and to explore whether they are made of a just measure as well Latitude as Altitude conveniently creeping into the Nest and creeping out Ascending and Descending he do's seem to measure as Architects are wont to take an exact account of the work which the Work-men make the lesse Bees when they meet this Old Bee do not exhibit a little honour to him as to the King they do run about him every way they stroke him once and again in the mean time playing with their wings expanded embraceing him with the Anteriour ●eet as with armes even as we gratulate him we meet therefore the Bees are an example to us of giving honour to old men When this Captain Bombylius has explored whether the work answeres the Rule he doth descend into the Latibulum and every one of the younger does anew set upon each his work In the Morning these come late to the work and unless these little creatures which daily in the morning creep upon them and about them did not excite them they would come later They have also amongst them another Bombilius who like the Drummer do's beat to the Souldiers to come to the Gardes or to move the Camp or to March or to Fight with the sound of the Drum so also do's he excite them to work This about 7 a Clock ith morning do's ascend to the top of the work to be built and with the halfe of his body looking out of the hole doth vibrate and agitate his wings and by the benefit of them doth excite a streperous noise in the hollow Latibulum not unlike the noise of a Drum which mostly is heard a whole quarter of an hour I an expert person and an Ear witnesse do commemorate these things Yea and an Eye witnesse and together with Me many others have heart it more then once the Vibrating and Streperous wings of that Drummer of the Bombilii I say Persons which for the hearing of this curiosity have visited me Be●ides and to these there is one that doth Watch for when sometimes I did beat the nest this Forth with did ascend out of the Latibulum as one struck and astonished and did Discurre every where as one that did explore what matter was without but suboderating noe danger again he soon descended More then once I have with admiration seen that Sometimes also I have put upon the stick a Domestick Bee but having spyed this forthwith out he came and snatcht the Bee as one in wroth and left it not till it was killed Furthermore I have found these Bombilii to coat with Wax the Cells out of which their fellow Bees had gone to fill t●en with honey to seal them up with Wax lest the Thieves entering into them should wast the Honey For amongst these are to be found idle Drone● Thieves and s●ow Bombilii Yet we have seen those with the rest going abroad to collect Honey did make a shew to fly out with them but they did not goe out of the Chamber in which I did keep them but did only fly a few rounds and that being done they did returne into one of the Glass bottles For I hadplaced two in the Chamber in the which they had built their Combs And each one returned into the Bottle out of which they came ●orth when the rest flew out into the Fields and Meddows and afterwards did returne home some loden with Honey others with Wax and some with Water these Droans did returne empty into the Hives and moreover did devour the Combs made by others and the Honey gathered for winter These are the idle Cattle which do not imploy themselves in the gathering of Honey but do consume the aliments gotten together by their fellows concerning which the Ancients have said much c. Perhaps you will aske what was the end of this Old Bombylius which I did think to be the King or Captain Him I saw near dying early ith morning before the Drummer did Vibrate as he was wont his wings and did excite a noise to them creeping out of the House But wholy horrid and Trembling in body hither come as it were tired he lay down and without Convultion of the feet sweetly did expire neither did that seem a wonder to me for his feet were long since numbed with Old age The King being dead the number of the other Bomb●lii did daily decrease at last I did see a Bombylius creeping out of the Cmbs whose Head was pluckt from the shoulders A body without a name I beheld this Trunk palpitating and lying alive two Days and then expiring hence it was easie to guesse all things within to be troubled and done inordinatly and ill and the Bombylii to doe as they list and to fight ●iercely the King being dead for from that time the Drummer beat not any more as he was wont the King being alive It is also worth admiration about the birth of these Bombylii from one Old Bee of this kind when he do's compose himself to propagate his Specis Sometimes to come a Hundred and Twenty Worms yet sometimes fewer and sometimes more but one only sometimes to have bred at once there are many Eye witnesses besideds my self who have wondered one of these little Bees to be so fruitfull as to be able to constitute a Bee Kingdom and an intire swarme Section 6. of Beetles Number 106. Betwixt the bark and the body of an Oak growing in the Island Wallacria in our Zeland I found this Worm boaring it though soft knew how by the benefit of a peculiar organ as with a wimble to perforate a very hard wood and this kind of Worms use their mouth out of which a sharp and hard Instrument doth stick for a Wimble Also they are not a little strong in protracting the hinder part of the body to the head wards Moreover they do affix the Podex in the excrements and so they are placed betwixt the Wood and excrements as it were squeesed in a Press so that they may force with their mouth and boar and in this posture they do pre●orate the Oke and do live of the marrow and fattish matter which they boare out Being fed to satiety they do extend themselves straight when he Ventricle has done its office they do exonorate the belly and at the same time they do by little and little more and more contract the body and draw it up as much as

Worm lay in the body of the Beetle it had fed on from the 18 th of August untill the 8 th of Iune the Year following then out came a winged Insect beautifull and elegant The wings were very remarkable but so tender that I could scarce draw them with a Pencill and shining bright as Mother of Pearl Its two eyes glisterd like Gold its body was of a Sea-green colour He flew with his head erected and the rest of his body hanging downwards with his wings spread but not agitated which perhaps he cou'd scarce do as I guess from the bigness of them but was carried by the Wings through the Aire he lived but two Days fasting for I knew not what to feed it with Section 5. of Bees In the 5th SECTION we put the Bee-kind which have as all the former Insects Four Naked Wing Number 105. You have one of the great sort of Bees called Bombili● by the Greek Figured in the 106 th Table This Bee chooses mostly a deep and dry soyle to house in not a stiff Clay which wou'd not easily be wrought into nor one two light and Sandy which wou'd be apt to fall in also a deep soile they love that the water may not soak thorough and trouble them In such an earth they dig holes to breed in sometimes three and sometimes three foot and a halfe deep and a foot square within into these holes they carry fine and dry Grass and cover that over with Wax no otherwise then Swallows coat their Nests with Clay but these Bees make their Nests Transparent and sull of holes and do coat them over very neatly with coverings made of Wax that they may be safe from Rain which might otherwise soake through the Earth and get into them In this Nest they make a Theca or small Cell like the halfe of an Egg and the bignes of a Pea divided in 2. parts Every Bee lay 9. little Worms in this Theca or Cell of the bigness of a Mustard seed but as white as milke and Pell●●●d Then they shut up this Theca that it may be like a compleat Egg This Cell now to the Sense is moderatly hot as an Egg sat on by a Hen. I Observed the lesser Bees often to creep over and about this Theca or Cell as though they had a mind to keep it warme and so hatch it and again I saw them scratch it as though they wou'd make a crack or opening in it but they made it softer by scratching it The Worms included in this Egg-like Cell daily grew biger and biger in the mean time the lesser Bees did not cease their indeavours to hatch it nor did they leave it off untill it was broke asunder also the Worms within by the continuall agitation and motion of themselves did help forwards this work of breaking it open and they growing the heat also increased which made the Wax yet more soft The Worms hatched from this Egg or Theca lay quiet a whole Day and then the great or Old Bee coming devowered all the Wax of which the Theca was made and in which these Worms were included that this Wax being again liquified in her body might serve as the materiall of another Theca Now when these Worms thus hatched out of the first Theca have layn a whole Day quiet without moving at all and l●ke dead things they weave each for himself an Egg of the bigness of a Bay-berry of a certain spittle destilling from their mouth and body And being now made they are indeed moist and soft but in time they dry and become hard These Eggs are all glued together in a Bunch by these Worms and out of each Egg comes a Bee as is Figured in the Table where the Eggs or Foliculi is opened at one end that the Bee may be seen which comes of the Worme Figured also in the Table This done the Great Bee comes again and makes a new Egg and puts therein 5 Worms of her own laying and then a nother Bee do's the like and 3 d Bee and so the rest follow doing in like manner untill all the work be fini●hed and made like a bunch of Grapes in forme and Figure And yet whether one and the same Bee perfect this work and lay Wormes in all the Theca's or Cells of the Bunch or whether they are divers and many Bees at this work making and filling the Theca's with Worms we are not certain but we judg it likely that one and the same Bee requires the making of the whole bunch of Theca's and fills them with her Worms only for with these Eyes we have seen one Bee which alone layed 33. Worms and put them into the Theca's This is also Observabe every Bee in the making of every Egg is bu●ied before that be finished for 28 hours in a continued labonr almost yet some get their work done sooner others later a little as it is with Work men which are more handy some then others The Worm Figured in the Table changed the 11 th of Iuly and so continued untill the 17 th of August when it appeared in forme of the Bee Figured in the Table when these Young Bees have by biteing opened the Wax cases and are come forth of them they are wont to rub their Eyes with their foremost feet and by this means of rubing they seem to open their Eyes or at least to rouse themselves from sleep in the fore part of their body they are W●ite Yellowish also and Black their wings ly upon their backs and are not yet expanded and they are moist but are soon dry by the Air that in a quarter of an hour they can expand and extend them These little Bees new hatched are not yet fit for worke but yet they cove● to get up into the open air but are a hinderance to the greater Bees which are busily employed who therefore drive them down as often as they come up also they run too and fro as though they were drunk after three Days that they have been hatched then they are able to carry Earth to the nests which the old Bees Arch over with Earth heaped together which Hollow Arch they draw over with a coat of Wax as Brick layers Servants carry Morter and Bricks with which they build Walls In like manner these Young Bees serve the Old ones but they do not carry Earth forwards but like Hens scratch it backwards and those Young Bees which were first hatched and are elder then the rest are imployed about the more master-like works for they make Wax dig holes and Arch them the Younger geting Earth The elder eat Wax and soften it in their stomacks and throw it up againe by little and little Liqui●ied and of this Liquid Wax and Earth mixed together they make Nests not unlike Swallows and finish their work with theirfore Feet complicated and the Younger help them in bringing and ramming the Earth This commonality also has its Kings or Captaine as

Month it appeared under the forme of a Fly and so in the space of a 11 Days a Fly is bred of a Worm Those Pediculi are very probably Cimices● Number 134. The Worm of the 134 th Table feeds of little creatures which they call Green Lice and do lick the fat of Roses so that it is very manifest not the least Animalls are safe from enemies but the Less are food for the greater This Worm do's stick to things and keeps it self immoveable by the bigger and obtuse parts of the Body but the acute and slender part which is like a Proboscis it tosses every way and moves it that it may take some of the Foresaid little Creaturs and having caught them it lifts them up lest they should stick or adhere to any thing and sucks them so lifted up untill nothing remaine but a every thin Skin Wings and Feet Also these Worms seem to love Ants for they are often with them but hurt them not It began to Change the 14 th of Iuly under the Figure of an Egg and the 21 st of the same Month it received the forme of a very long Fly This was a By-birth and an Ichneumon-Wasp the true birth should have been a Fly like the last aescribed Number 135. There are many of these Worms to be found upon the leaves of the Elder for they are bred of the Seed which the Fly their Mother layes upon them in the Month of Iune and Hatched by the heat of the Sun And when these Flyes know that these little creatures are bred a future meat for their Young ones they do inject their Seed upon the leaves These little Creaturs have six Feet and long Winges yet I never found them to fly bnt are a food to these Worms These Worms know how to Counterfeit dead and to lie amongst them for that the innocent little Creatures creep over the Bodies of the Worms which when the Worms feel they take them with their sharp bills and snck them lifting up their Proboscis like Hens when they drinke These Worms feed of these little Creatures and the Birds feed of the Flyes they are changed into and we of the Birds As soon as these little Creatures perceive the Worms forthwith they fly them and run away When this Worm has fed to its fullnesse for twenty four hours it is wont to rest and sleep from Eightith Morning till Nine the next Day and when he again feels these little Creatures to run about him he Eats as much of them as he has a mind and now full again it rests and seems as Dead And the 12 th of Iune this Worm affixed to a leaf did compose it self for change as is Depicted But the 15 th of Iuly a Fly was Borne which as soon as come forth in halfe a quarter of an hour became as big again and lived four Days without Food These Little Creatures are a numerous Brood of Cimices Number 136. The 30 th of August I took up a Ripe Mushrome and puting it under a Glasse I exposed it upon the Pavement to the Sun The Day following that Little Mushrome was full of little Black Worms but the 11 th of September the greatest part of it was turned into Blark water like Ink except that part which was called the Stoole or Foot being the Root In this impure Water I numbred 63 worms which the Day following did betake themselves to change but 7 Days after the 10 th of September they were all turned to Living Flyes very swift and nimble with Red Heads and Black Bodies some of these were of an Elegant colour and had on each side a little hammer with which they did beat and excite themselves Some of these had Black heads but one was of a different colour from the rest and of a bigger bodie c. You may keep these if you please long alive with a Sweet Liquor I speak this by experience as all things else for I fed many of them from the 10 th of September to the 24 th of December the year following and I cou'd have easily kept them longer if it had been to any purpose Number 137. We may very often see upon the leaves of Oziers and other Trees certaine Little green creatures and so tender-skined that they are crushed with the lea●● touch and the humour squeezed out of them is green These are bred from a certain humour which the Ants lay upon the said leaves and with the sun hatches into little creatures they spoile the boughs they a●re bred on for they corrupt the wood knitting upon it a net under which lying-hid they grow up and in the mean time do suck up all the moisture so that the boughs being deprived of that humour which is owing to them do become lean tender and black barked not like the rest of the wood When they are new hatched the Ants are seen to creep amongst them and as it were to cleanse them The Worm depicted Table 137 th eats these little creatures as soon as they are grown up yea it fills it self with these that it can hardly stir and being so filled it rests quiet in the same place it laid it self down in to the next morning and then when the yester-dayes meat is digested it begins to devour the remaining creatures or seeks a new bough better furnished and on which more of these small creatures sit and of them it fills its hungry belly as before This Worm gave it self to change the 10 th of Iune in that form and Posture as is depicted and it remained in that state 20 dayes so that the 29 th of Iune a Fly came forth which wonderfull most suddenly came to its perfect bignesse for within a quarter of an hour it bacame as big again as it was when it was ha●ched and as big again as the egg from which it broke out I knew not what to give it that it wou'd tast and so it dyed the 5 th of August Number 138. The Worm of the 138 th Table is mostly upon the leaves of Elder for the most part it is on elegant whitish colour and yellowish which afterwards becomes blackish It feeds of the little creatures which are often to be found on the extream twigs of the Elder these are the offspring of Ants bred of a humid seed layed by the Ants npon the extream boughs of the Elder and by the heat of the Sun cherished and brought to maturitie that these little creatures might be bred of it Also the Ants are continually at hand to defend them against this Worm c It you wou'd know whence this Worm is bred I answer that it is bred of such a Fly as is depicted in the Table which is wont to lay its seed upon the leaves of the Elder well knowing these little creatures to be there which may serve it for food and from the seed of this Fly this Worm cherished by the heat of the Sun doth