Of Insects.[105]
A Bug.
There is a certain kind ofBuglike aBeetle, but of a glittering brass colour, with four strong Tinsel Wings; their Bodies are full of Corruption or white Matter like a Maggot; being dead, and kept awhile, they will stench odiously; they beat theHumming Birdsfrom the Flowers.
{40}The Wasp.
TheWaspsin this Countrey are pied, black and white, breed in Hives made like a great Pine Apple, their entrance is at the lower end, the whole Hive is of an Ash Colour, but of what matter its made no man knows; wax it is not, neither will it melt nor fry, but will take fire suddenly like Tinder: this they fasten to a Bow, or build it round about a low Bush, a Foot from the ground.
The flying Gloworm.
The flyingGloworm, flying in dark Summer Nights like sparks of Fire in great number; theyare common likewise, inPalestina.