. Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902 . Fig. 12. (Original.) Fi^.g (Original.) seeming smoke and heated air were rising and eddying. On reaching the building the firemenfound that they had been misled, or, as the boys would say - sold. The appearlnce that hadalarmed the town was caused by innumerable specimens of Polyshchotes punctatus, Fab. risingfrom, and sporting over, the roof. (Fig. 13.) Often during the time I lived in the Eastern Townships, when driving home in the calmsummer evenings, I noticed above the top of some giant monarch of the forest, a mysterious
. Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902 . Fig. 12. (Original.) Fi^.g (Original.) seeming smoke and heated air were rising and eddying. On reaching the building the firemenfound that they had been misled, or, as the boys would say - sold. The appearlnce that hadalarmed the town was caused by innumerable specimens of Polyshchotes punctatus, Fab. risingfrom, and sporting over, the roof. (Fig. 13.) Often during the time I lived in the Eastern Townships, when driving home in the calmsummer evenings, I noticed above the top of some giant monarch of the forest, a mysteriousmoving column just discernible against the pale after glow of the sunset. The appearanceswere due to assemblies of insects, taking their pleasure in the heights. Who has nob noticed the dash with which the beei comes suddenly out of the blue andflights upon the foot-board of the hive, as if, like the clown in the pantomine he would say, Here we are again ! That energetic little fellow the Flea, Pnlex irritans, Linneus, can leap thirty times itsown height. Wlio has
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