A tropical orchid (Epidendrum tessellatum), three day-flies (Ephemera species) and a small beetle (Erodius species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1804, after J. Ihle.

Ephemeri vita or the natural history and anatomy of the ephemeron, a fly that lives but five hours / Written originally in Low-Dutch by Jo. Swammerdam.

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