Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Crickets are immaculately clean, harmless animals.
I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.
Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.
