The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 94
cts more closely, and we should catchspecimens of both kinds for an aquarium to bedescribed later. Now let us search for small insects which restback downward just at the surface of the water;these are the back-swimmers. You may alwaysknow a back-swimmer by the long hind legswhich project out from… … A GIANT WATER-BUG AND A WATER-TIGER their sharp beaks. These and many of the othersfly so well that to keep them in the collecting-canwe should cover it with muslin. Water-boatmen are interesting creatures easilyfound on the pebbled bottom of a pond. Theyare scarcely half an inch long; the fore…
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