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Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.Cowan, Frank

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Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

Name: Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.
Author: Cowan, Frank

Cowan, Frank

Insects

Flour, Bees steal, from a mill, 191.

  Flying-bulls, 25.

  Food, Ants as, 159-161;
    Bees, 204;
    _Buprestis_, 51;
    Butterflies, 231;
    Caterpillars, 372;
    Cicadas, 254;
    Cossi, 27;
    _Copris molossus_, 44;
    Field-crickets, 96;
    Flies, 295;
    Galls, 145;
    Goliath-beetle, 46;
    Grasshoppers, 98, 99;
    Grou-grou worm, 69, 70;
    Honey, 208-211;
    Lice, 99, 317;
    Locusts, 98, 120-127;
    May-bug, 49;
    _Notonectidæ_, 275;
    _Oryctes rhinoceros_, 46;
    _Prionus damicornis_, 73;
    Scolopendras and Centipedes, 365;
    Scorpions, 329;
    Silk-worms, 240;
    Spiders, 354-356;
    Termites, 135-137.

  _Forficulidæ_, 76, 77.

  Forger of Scarab-gems, 38, n.

  Formic acid, 161.

  _Formica bispinosa_, 162.
    _major_, 161.
    _minor_, 161.
    _omnivora_, 166.
    _rufa_, 159.
    _smaragdina_, 157, 158.

  _Formicidæ_, 146-170.

  Fortune, good, presaged by _Acanthocinus ædilis_, 73.

  Fox, how it rids itself of Fleas, 309;
    how it kills Wasps for their combs, 174.

  Fractures, cobwebs for, 357.

  France, bloody-rain in, 218;
    Crickets, 97;
    _Cynips glecome_, 145;
    Death’s-head Moth, 233;
    Lady-bird, 17;
    Locusts, 103-130;
    Mantis, 83;
    shower of insects, 365;
    Termites in, 132.

  Frankfort, massacre of the Jews at, 218.

  Franklin and the Ants, 155.

  Freak of nature: five-winged Butterfly, 230.

  Frogs killed with hot charcoal, 55;
    foot in chalk, to keep away witches, 247;
    for sting of Scorpions, 327.

  Fruit, wasps generated from rotten, 171, 184.

  _Fulgora candelaria_, 256.
    _lanternaria_, 255.

  _Fulgoridæ_, 255-256.

  Funereal rites, Scarab connected with, 33, 36.

  Funerals, Bees invited to, 187.


  Gad-fly, 291.

  _Gallerucidæ_, 74.

  _Galleria cereana_, 249.

  _Gall-flies_, 143-145.

  Galls, 143-145.

  Gambaia, Lice in, 317.

  Garlic, to keep away Scorpions, 327.

  _Gasterophilus hæmorrhoidalis_, 302.

  Generation of Fleas, 305;
    Flies, 290;
    Gnats, 278;
    Scorpions, 321;
    Spiders, 362;
    Wasps, 171, 184.

  Geography, study of, from cabinet of insects, 369.

  _Geometridæ_, 248.

  _Geotrupes stercorarius_, 28, 44.

  Germany, Agaric-Gnat in, 286;
    Ants, 159;
    Blister-flies, 63;
    bloody-rain, 218;
    Butterflies, 225;
    Canker-worms, 248;
    Crickets, 96;
    Gall-flies, 143;
    Lady-bird, 17;
    Stag-beetle, 25;
    Typographer-beetle, 61.

  Ghosts, Glow-worms supposed to be, 56.

  Gilded-Dandy, 23.

  Gleanthus and the Ants, 154.

  _Glow-worms_, 55-58, 339.

  _Gnats_, 52, 194, 278-286.

  Goat, blood of, to destroy Fleas, 308;
    fat of, for sting of Scorpions, 325;
    gall of, in medicine, 210;
    liver of, to drive away Moths, 243;
    maggots in the brain of, 302.

  Gods, earthen, made of clay of Ant-hills, 135.

  _Gold-beetles_, 23.

  Golden-Bees in tomb of Childeric, 196.
    Fleece, search after the, 241.

  Gold obtained from Ants in India, 146.

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History

Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

Cowan, Frank

Insects

Flour, Bees steal, from a mill, 191.

  Flying-bulls, 25.

  Food, Ants as, 159-161;
    Bees, 204;
    _Buprestis_, 51;
    Butterflies, 231;
    Caterpillars, 372;
    Cicadas, 254;
    Cossi, 27;
    _Copris molossus_, 44;
    Field-crickets, 96;
    Flies, 295;
    Galls, 145;
    Goliath-beetle, 46;
    Grasshoppers, 98, 99;
    Grou-grou worm, 69, 70;
    Honey, 208-211;
    Lice, 99, 317;
    Locusts, 98, 120-127;
    May-bug, 49;
    _Notonectidæ_, 275;
    _Oryctes rhinoceros_, 46;
    _Prionus damicornis_, 73;
    Scolopendras and Centipedes, 365;
    Scorpions, 329;
    Silk-worms, 240;
    Spiders, 354-356;
    Termites, 135-137.

  _Forficulidæ_, 76, 77.

  Forger of Scarab-gems, 38, n.

  Formic acid, 161.

  _Formica bispinosa_, 162.
    _major_, 161.
    _minor_, 161.
    _omnivora_, 166.
    _rufa_, 159.
    _smaragdina_, 157, 158.

  _Formicidæ_, 146-170.

  Fortune, good, presaged by _Acanthocinus ædilis_, 73.

  Fox, how it rids itself of Fleas, 309;
    how it kills Wasps for their combs, 174.

  Fractures, cobwebs for, 357.

  France, bloody-rain in, 218;
    Crickets, 97;
    _Cynips glecome_, 145;
    Death’s-head Moth, 233;
    Lady-bird, 17;
    Locusts, 103-130;
    Mantis, 83;
    shower of insects, 365;
    Termites in, 132.

  Frankfort, massacre of the Jews at, 218.

  Franklin and the Ants, 155.

  Freak of nature: five-winged Butterfly, 230.

  Frogs killed with hot charcoal, 55;
    foot in chalk, to keep away witches, 247;
    for sting of Scorpions, 327.

  Fruit, wasps generated from rotten, 171, 184.

  _Fulgora candelaria_, 256.
    _lanternaria_, 255.

  _Fulgoridæ_, 255-256.

  Funereal rites, Scarab connected with, 33, 36.

  Funerals, Bees invited to, 187.


  Gad-fly, 291.

  _Gallerucidæ_, 74.

  _Galleria cereana_, 249.

  _Gall-flies_, 143-145.

  Galls, 143-145.

  Gambaia, Lice in, 317.

  Garlic, to keep away Scorpions, 327.

  _Gasterophilus hæmorrhoidalis_, 302.

  Generation of Fleas, 305;
    Flies, 290;
    Gnats, 278;
    Scorpions, 321;
    Spiders, 362;
    Wasps, 171, 184.

  Geography, study of, from cabinet of insects, 369.

  _Geometridæ_, 248.

  _Geotrupes stercorarius_, 28, 44.

  Germany, Agaric-Gnat in, 286;
    Ants, 159;
    Blister-flies, 63;
    bloody-rain, 218;
    Butterflies, 225;
    Canker-worms, 248;
    Crickets, 96;
    Gall-flies, 143;
    Lady-bird, 17;
    Stag-beetle, 25;
    Typographer-beetle, 61.

  Ghosts, Glow-worms supposed to be, 56.

  Gilded-Dandy, 23.

  Gleanthus and the Ants, 154.

  _Glow-worms_, 55-58, 339.

  _Gnats_, 52, 194, 278-286.

  Goat, blood of, to destroy Fleas, 308;
    fat of, for sting of Scorpions, 325;
    gall of, in medicine, 210;
    liver of, to drive away Moths, 243;
    maggots in the brain of, 302.

  Gods, earthen, made of clay of Ant-hills, 135.

  _Gold-beetles_, 23.

  Golden-Bees in tomb of Childeric, 196.
    Fleece, search after the, 241.

  Gold obtained from Ants in India, 146.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

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