. Under the open sky; being a year with nature. Natural history. 192 UNDER THE OPEN SKY. to be very fugitive and to dim soon after his death. This fellow haunts the water because there he best finds his food. It has been seri- ously proposed to cultivate him for his great fondness for mosquitoes. In connection with this his one good name was suggested. It was proposed to call him a "mosquito hawk," but the name never "; Then too the dragon-fly lays her eggs in the water and this brings her to our ponds. Here she hovers over the surface, her long tail bent down. Every f
. Under the open sky; being a year with nature. Natural history. 192 UNDER THE OPEN SKY. to be very fugitive and to dim soon after his death. This fellow haunts the water because there he best finds his food. It has been seri- ously proposed to cultivate him for his great fondness for mosquitoes. In connection with this his one good name was suggested. It was proposed to call him a "mosquito hawk," but the name never "; Then too the dragon-fly lays her eggs in the water and this brings her to our ponds. Here she hovers over the surface, her long tail bent down. Every few seconds at such a time, she dips the tip of the tail under the surface and deposits an egg, which sinks to the bottom and adheres to the stones. Here it develops into its baby stage. Often when you have lifted a stone from the bed of a stream a black, flat animal has scurried to the underside of the stone. This was prob- ably a young dragon-fly. This water-in- habiting and quite unlovely-looking animal .. will stay here until next summer. Then it jg||*7 will climb up the stem of a cat-tail or sedge, ' '' clinch its toes so as to hook firmly to the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Schmucker, Samuel Christian, b. 1860. Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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