. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). from week to week through the season. The grow- ing polHwog feeds on vegetable diet; what does the full-grown frog eat ? ffisects that ca?i be kept in aquaria.—Insects are per- haps the most dehghtful creatures that one can keep in aquaria. They are plenty, easy to get, every one of the many kinds seems to have habits pecuhar to itself, and each more curious and interesting than the last. Some insects spend their entire life in the water; others are aqua
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). from week to week through the season. The grow- ing polHwog feeds on vegetable diet; what does the full-grown frog eat ? ffisects that ca?i be kept in aquaria.—Insects are per- haps the most dehghtful creatures that one can keep in aquaria. They are plenty, easy to get, every one of the many kinds seems to have habits pecuhar to itself, and each more curious and interesting than the last. Some insects spend their entire life in the water; others are aquatic during one stage of their existence only. Those described here are but a few of those found in the central part of the state of New York, in ponds and sluggish streams. If these cannot be found, others just as interesting can be kept instead. One can hardly make a single dip with a net without bring- ing out of their hiding places many of these *' little ; The predaceous diving-beetle (figure 13) is well named. He is a diver by profession and is a skilled one. 'J'he young of this beetle are known as (figure 14) and their habits justify the name. Their food consists of the young of other insects; in fact we would belter keep them by themsehcs unless we wish to have the acpiarium. Fig. 13.— The freda ceous (livim;-beetle. '' water-tigers. 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 Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Ithaca, N. Y. : The University
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