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Insect Swarms

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IT may be worth mentioning in connection with Mr. J. Clarke Hawkshaw's interesting account of the wonderful insect-swarm at Trouville, on August 12 and 13, that the two species which composed it were noticed in immense profusion about the same time in the West of England.

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HINCKS, T. Insect Swarms. Nature 20, 455–456 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020455c0

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