. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. '^^ J MCG. FLY ACE indeed! Was ever lace even of fairy queen fashioned so daintily as are the wings of this diaphanous pale green sylph, that flutters in its filmy halo above the grass tips ? Yonder it alights upon the clover. Let us steal closely upon its haunt. Here we find it hid under the up- per leaf, its eyes of fiery gold gleaming in the shadow, its slender body now caged within the canopy of its four steep, sloping wings, their glassy meshes lit with iridescent hues of opal— the
. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. '^^ J MCG. FLY ACE indeed! Was ever lace even of fairy queen fashioned so daintily as are the wings of this diaphanous pale green sylph, that flutters in its filmy halo above the grass tips ? Yonder it alights upon the clover. Let us steal closely upon its haunt. Here we find it hid under the up- per leaf, its eyes of fiery gold gleaming in the shadow, its slender body now caged within the canopy of its four steep, sloping wings, their glassy meshes lit with iridescent hues of opal— the lace-wing fly, a delight to the eye, but whose fragile being is guarded from our too rude ap- proach by a challenge to our sense of smell, which plainly warns us, " Touch not, handle not!" Our first capture of the fairy insect is always a memorable feat, with its lingering, odorous re-. 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 Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York : Harper & Brothers
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