Kansas University Science Bulletin, 



Vol. IV, No. 2. MARCH, 1907. I ™xiv™2: 



SOME RESULTS OF DESULTORY COLLECTING OF 

 INSECTS IN KANSAS AND COLORADO. 



BY ELBERT S. TUCKER. 



XN spite of the fact that a person may be regularly employed 

 -*- in entomological work, he may not have opportunities to 

 do personal collecting of insects any more than one who is 

 otherwise engaged. When one is steadily occupied through- 

 out every working-day, only such time as comes outside of 

 prescribed hours of work permits the undertaking of separate 

 or distinct pursuits of individual concern or diversion. Never- 

 theless, a great deal can be accomplished in any line by 

 improving odd periods of leisure. One advantage which en- 

 tomology has over other studies in natural history is that 

 collections of specimens can be made at night as readily as 

 by day. Much spare time that can be utilized for day col- 

 lecting is afforded during holidays, vacations, excursions or 

 on visits ; in fact, occasions frequently occur which invite the 

 insect collector to go forth with net and bottles. Intervals 

 of even an hour can be advantageously spent in this manner. 

 Unlike the hunter or fisherman, he need not seek the wildest 

 haunts in nature, for an abundance of varied forms generally 

 await him ready at hand whether he is situated in country 

 or city. Records of local collecting done even in a small way 

 often have a value proportionate to those of more extensive 

 collecting ; besides, additional merit may be rendered if de- 

 tailed particulars are given. 



Little by little, here and there, whenever a chance is offered, 

 by day or by night, considerable material will be accumu- 

 lated in the course of a year or two by persistent collecting 



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