June 6, 1771
Posted by sydney on Jun 6th, 1771
Ephemera vulgata Meridie choreas aireas instituit, sursum recte tendens, rediensque eadem fere via: Scopoli. A mole-cricket’s nest full of small eggs was discovered just under the turf in the garden near the pond. They were of a dirty yellow colour, & of an oval shape, surrounded with a tough skin, & too small to have any rudiments of young withim them, being full of a viscous substance. There might be an hundred eggs in this one nest; they lay very shallow just under a little fresh-moved mould in an hollow formed for that purpose.
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Ephemera vulgata Meridie choreas aëreas instituit, sursum recte tendens, rediensque eadem fere via: Scopoli.
The common May-fly begins its aërial dances at midday, rising up toward the right, and generally returning by the same way. —Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788) was an Austrian-Italian physician and naturalist.