Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 105
MOSQUITO LARVA. (Greatly enlarged view, drawn by the aid of acompound microscope.) Professor L. O. Howard, in his InsectBook, gives this amusing statement regardingthe dragon-flys great appetite : The voracity of a large dragon-fly may easily betested by capturing one and holding it by its… … COMMON DRAGON-FLY. This true dragon-fly keeps its wings extended when alighting; thedamsel dragon-fly closes its wings together in alighting. its capacity. Beutenmiiller found that one of the largeones would eat forty house-flies inside of two hours,while a smaller one ate twenty-five in the same…
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