Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.084

[inscription reads] " as with great effort. Three times the body was pushed down to the back & withdrawn. The third time, the work was done, & the milky skin again appeared as the fly assumed its normal state. After she had withdrawn her tail the strands were still separated just at her abdomen which she pressed together with her feet. These flies are parasitic on the larvae of the horn-tails. / Thoroughwort in bloom here along the rail fence. Monarch & tiger swallowtail on one, also an Asterias. Both swallowtails are "