Agrion

In the smaller forms, such as Agrion (A. saucium, Fig. 129; Fig. 129

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

It is the _Agrion virgo_, the most splendid of all the dragon-flies, even rivalling the gorgeously coloured insects of tropical countries.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

Polynema, another egg-parasite, which lays its eggs (one, seldom two) in the eggs of a small dragon fly, Agrion virgo, which oviposits in the parenchyma of the leaves of waterlilies.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

The pupa state lasts for five or six days, and when the imago appears it eats its way through a small round opening in the end of the skin of its host, the Agrion larva.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

For example, in the larvæ of the larger Dragon flies (Libellula, etc.) they are wanting, while in Agrion and its allies they are present.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

In aquatic larvæ there are often external gill-like organs, being simple sacs permeated by tracheæ (as in Agrion, Fig. 129, or the May flies).

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

They are very variable in position, some being developed at the extremity of the abdomen, as in Agrion, or along the sides, as in the May flies, or filiform and arranged in tufts on the under side of the body, as in

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Agrion that has invested in hydroponics in Bergama said that due to the latest situation the company was considering expanding investment.

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There are a thousand concealed fitnesses in nature, rhymed correspondences of bird and blossom, for which you must seek through hidden paths; as when you come upon some black brook so palisaded with cardinal-flowers as to seem "a stream of sunsets"; or trace its shadowy course till it spreads into some forest - pool, above which that rare and patrician insect, the Agrion dragon-fly, flits and hovers perpetually, as if the darkness and the cool had taken wings.

Oldport Days 1873

There are a thousand concealed fitnesses in nature, rhymed correspondences of bird and blossom, for which you must seek through hidden paths; as when you come upon some black brook so palisaded with cardinal-flowers as to seem "a stream of sunsets"; or trace its shadowy course till it spreads into some forest-pool, above which that rare and patrician insect, the Agrion dragon-fly, flits and hovers perpetually, as if the darkness and the cool had taken wings.

Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867