. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). 89.— Water-striders have long, thin legs. stout, others slender-bodied ; but all have long, thin legs. Their color is nearly black. As they scurry about in the sunshine the delighted watcher will sometimes catch a glimpse of their reflections on the bottom. Six oval bits of shadow, outlined by rims of light; there is nothing else like it! Be sure you see it. Let us leave the quiet, restful pools and the sluggish bays and follow the hurrying water to the rapids. Every stone changes the course of the current
. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). 89.— Water-striders have long, thin legs. stout, others slender-bodied ; but all have long, thin legs. Their color is nearly black. As they scurry about in the sunshine the delighted watcher will sometimes catch a glimpse of their reflections on the bottom. Six oval bits of shadow, outlined by rims of light; there is nothing else like it! Be sure you see it. Let us leave the quiet, restful pools and the sluggish bays and follow the hurrying water to the rapids. Every stone changes the course of the current and the babble makes glad the heart of the wayfarer. Let us " leave no stone unturned" until we have routed from his favorite haunt that genius of the rapids, the Dobson. (See Fig. 90.) These creatures bear other common names and are prized by fishermen in the black bass season. Dirty brown in color and frankly ugly in appearance and disposition, these larvse, for such they are, have little to fear from the casual visitor at the water's edge. When a stone is lifted the Dobsons beneath it allow themselves to be hurried along for some distance by the current. The danger over, they. 90. — The Dohson makes no pretei. nions to beauty {natural size). * These and others forms found in still or slow flowing water are described and pictured in Leaflet No. 11, Life in an Aquarium. 34 539. 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 New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture; New York State Agricultural Experiment Station; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Albany : State of New York, Dept. of Agriculture
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