The Monkey's Voyage by Alan de Queiroz

Author:Alan de Queiroz
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2013-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

“That insects can be transported into the upper regions of the atmosphere by ascending air-currents was long ago remarked by Humboldt, and the subject has been discussed with his usual acumen by Whymper (Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator). Carried along in the higher air-currents these insects might finally be deposited at places far distant from their home. One reads occasionally extraordinary accounts of a rain of insects. A very circumstantial account was given to me when I was on Keeling Atoll of a shower of dragon-flies that fell on the islands, their remains being found in quantities in the lagoon. Dragon-flies, it is known, are often found at sea far from land, and one species has been observed nearly all over the world, including the Pacific islands.”

—H. B. Guppy, Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific, vol. 2

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