Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 599
Insect egg hunting is often not less interest-ing (and always far more commendable) thanbirds nest hunting. Insect eggs may be care-fully examined without injury, but birds willsometimes desert their nests, even if they areonly examined carefully and not disturbed. great flock of migrating… … THE SQUASH-BUG. A COMMON DRAGON-FLY. twenty-five feet from the ground to as far as you could seeeasily, the air was thick with dragon-flies, all flying in ageneral southerly direction. It is true they flew from eastto west, but theyalways turned to the south again. I won-dered if dragon-flies did…
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