"Each spring the drowsy trill of the called us and armed with pails and strainers and home-made nets, off we started to the nearby railroad . Here we found treasures: strings of toad eggs, s big and little, sedate s (which we believed were lizards), and alluring s, drab , and most tempting of all, . Caddis flies had fascinated me ever since I had read about them Charles Kingsley's (1863), and it was wonderful to find that these almost mythical creatures of English brooks were our neighbors here in our own waters."
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Margaret Morse Nice
(née Morse, December 6, 1883 – June 26, 1974) was an American , , and . Honored for her extensive studies of the life history of the , she received the 's in 1942. In 1997 the established the .
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