Man And Nature Or Physical Geography As Modified By Human Action
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F Earlier in the year the trout feeds on the larvse of the May fly, which is itself very destructive to the spawn of the salmon, and hence, by a sort of house-that-Jack-built, the destruction of the mos- * I have seen the larva of the dragon fly in an aquarium, bite off the head of a young fish as long as itself. t Insects and fish -which prey upon and feed each other are the only forms of animal life that are numerous in the native woods, and their range is, of course, limited by the extent of... the waters. The great abun dance of the trout, and of other more or less allied genera in the lakes of Lapland, seems to be due to the supply of food provided for them by the swarms of insects which in the larva state inhabit the waters, or, in other stages of their life, are accidentally swept into them. All travellers in the north of Europe speak of the gnat and the mosquito as very serious draw backs upon the enjoyments of the summer tourist, who visits the head of the Gulf of Bothnia to see the midnight sun, and the brothers Loestadiua regard them as one of the great plagues of sub-Arctic life.
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