Lake Umbagog.
Aquatic Insects.
1907
August 12.
over the forest,
swiftly, heading, no doubt, for
some distant pond or river. That
so gross and clumsy looking a
creature - it is not unlike a Turtle 
in shape - should be given to such
aspiring flights will ever be a
source of wonder to me.
Aquatic Insects.
(Ephemera)
Then there are the Ephemera,
- feeble, futile, foolish-seeming
insects, born and bred in the
lake yet doomed to perish in
it at the last. They vary
in size and are no doubt of
several different species. The largest
are more than two inches in
length and not unlike grasshopper
in general appearance. Although
reputed to live but a single day
one may see them almost any time
in summer fluttering or drifting aimlessly about
the water. When they settle on it
they hold their transparent, netted -
veined wings up over their backs, as
the Field Plover upraises his wings for
a moment just after alighting.
With the first frosty morning of early autumn
they die by thousands strewing the surface
of the lake with their slack,
water-soaked bodies. These are
eaten by certain fishes and, I think, by
a few kinds of birds.