Note 517 — LETTER IX.
Reading edition
In Col. Venable's Experienced Angler, a vast number of insects are enumerated as good baits for fish, under the names of Bob, Cadbait, Cankers, Caterpillars, Palmers, Gentles, Bark-worms, Oak-worms, Colewort-worms, Flag-worms, Green-flies, Ant-flies, Butterflies, Wasps, Hornets, Bees, Humble-bees, Grasshoppers, Dors, Beetles, a great brown fly that lives upon the oak like a Scarabee—(Melolontha vulgaris or Amphimalla solstitialis?) and flies (i. e. may-flies) of various sorts.