Gnats [noun]

Dun Gnat—from inside wing feather of a Landrail and fawn coloured silk—cypher hook.

The Black Gnat—dubbed with black mohair, the wings of the lightest part of a starling.

Little Black Gnat—dubbed with black strands from an ostrich, wings, light feather from underneath starling's wing.

My, it was a feast that made his eyes open and his stomach swell like a toad's trying to swallow a gnat.

When once this Gnat had disappeared—and the life of the Mosquito is not a long one—the bird would die of starvation.

Now they began to see the arching arrow-hail, grey against the skyline like gnat swarms dancing in the dusk of summer trees.

This boat, which floats upon the surface of the water until the larv are disclosed, is placed there by the female gnat.

The gnat has to undergo its change on the surface of the water—How is it to accomplish this without being wetted?

He was no more a part of the company he kept than a gnat on an ox or a flea caught up in the ermine of a king.

A Gnat and a Dragonfly, with a great many of their relations, arrived about the same time with the Beetle.