. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. EYE SPY tory is not half as interesting as that of this poor beetle that we tread upon in the grass. His neighbor insect, the tiger-beetle, running hither and thither with legs of wonderful speed, and with the agility of a fly on the wing, readily es- capes our approach; but this clumsy, helpless blue beetle must needs plead for mercy by his color alone, because he has no means to avert our crushing step. A little girl who met me on the country road re- cently summed up the characterist
. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. EYE SPY tory is not half as interesting as that of this poor beetle that we tread upon in the grass. His neighbor insect, the tiger-beetle, running hither and thither with legs of wonderful speed, and with the agility of a fly on the wing, readily es- capes our approach; but this clumsy, helpless blue beetle must needs plead for mercy by his color alone, because he has no means to avert our crushing step. A little girl who met me on the country road re- cently summed up the characteristics of the blue beetle pretty well. The portrait was unmistak- able. " I've got a fun- ny blue bug at home in a box that I want to show you," said she; " he's blue and awful fat, and hasn't got any wings, but when you touch him, he just turns over on his back, and trembles his toes and leaks big yellow drops out of his ; I have shown her beetle—three views of him, in fact—about the natural size, one of them on his back and " leak- ing " at his elbows, for such is the infallible habit of the insect when disturbed—a trick which has also given him the name of the " oil ; He is also known as the indigo 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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