P. M. — To New Bedford Library.
Mr. Ingraham, the librarian, says that he once saw frog-spawn in New Bedford the 4th of March.
Take out Emmons’s Report on the insects injurious to vegetation in New York. See a plate of the Colias Philodice, or common sulphur-yellow butterfly, male and female of different tinge.
Areoda lanigera is apparently the common yellow dor-bug.
Arthur has Tabanus, the great horse-fly.
Emmons says of Scutelleridae: “The disagreeable smelling bugs that frequent berry bushes and strawberry vines belong here. . . . Of this family the genus Pentatoma is one of the most common and feeds upon the juice of plants. Sometimes it has only to pass over a fruit, to impart to it its offensive odor.” The one represented looks like the huckleberry one.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 6, 1857
Frog-spawn. See April 4, 1857 ("Caught a croaking frog . . .. Nearby was its spawn, in very handsome spherical masses of transparent jelly. . . consisting of globules. . . with a black or dark centre as big as a large shot.")
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 6, 1857
Frog-spawn. See April 4, 1857 ("Caught a croaking frog . . .. Nearby was its spawn, in very handsome spherical masses of transparent jelly. . . consisting of globules. . . with a black or dark centre as big as a large shot.")
