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Title: Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788
Subjects: Natural history Birds Fishes Entomology
Publisher: London, Printed for the Proprietor and sold by H. D. Symonds
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hich arenot hatched until the ensuing spring. Thereare few, however, of these animals suffered tocome to a state of maturity; for as their burst-ing through the cone destroys the silk, themanufacturers take care to kill the aurelia, byexposing it to the sun, before the moth comesto perfection. This done, they take off thefloss^ and throw tlie cones into warm water, stirring 290 NATURAL HISTORY stirring them till the first thread offers them adue for winding ail off. They generally takeeight of the silken threads together; the conesstill kept under water, till a proper quantity ofthe silk is wound off; they do not howevertake all; for the latter parts grow weak, andare of a bad colour. As to the paper like sub-stance which remains, some stain it with a va-riety of colours, to make artificial flowers;others let it lie in the water, till the glutinousmatter which cements it is all dissolved: it isthen carded like wool, spun with a wheel, andconverted into silk stuffs of an inferior kind.
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145. OF BIRDS, FISH, &c. 291 OF THE FOURTH ORDER OF INSECTS, (N this class naturalists have placed such asare at first laid in the form of eggs, then ex-cluded in that of maggots, or grubs, (differing veryessentially from the caterpillar, of which we havejust treated, particularly in wanting the number ofeet) afterwards changed into aurelias, but withtheir legs and wings visible, and, lastly, assumingwings, in which state they propagate theirkind. Some of these have four transparentwings, as bees; some have two membraneouscases to their wings, as beetles ; and some havebut two wings which are tiansparent, as ants-In this class, therefore, are to be found the bee,the wasp, the humble bee, the ichneumon fly,the gnat, the tipula, or longlegs, the beetle, themay-bug, the glow-worm, the ant, and alltheir varieties. The transformations which alithese undergo are nearly similar; and thoughvery different animals in form, are yet producednearly iii the same manner. Tlie 292 NATURAL HISTORY

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