June 10, 1771

Posted by sydney on Jun 10th, 1771

Small rain in the night. Ephemera cauda biseta. The angler’s may-fly.  Myriads of may-flies appear for the first time on the Alresford stream.  The air was crowded with them, & the surface of the water covered.  Large trouts sucked them in as they lay struggling on the surface of the stream, unable to rise till their wings were dryed.  This appearance reconciled me in some measure to the wonderful account that Scopoli gives of the quantities emerging from the rivers of Carniola.  See his Entomologia.

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