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1. Freshly blooming fields of goldenrods, asters, thistles, 

 etc., will furnish butterflies, long-horn beetles, soldier beetles, 

 ambush bugs and numberless kinds of bees and flies, and 

 the way to get them is by means of a net and cyanide bottle. 

 Sunshiny weather is required for best results. 



2. The meadow herbage will furnish meadow grasshoppers 

 and katydids, tree crickets and plant bugs, leafhoppers and 

 aphids, moths and butterflies and their larvae, sawflies and 

 craneflies and numberless other little flies and bees and 

 beetles, and the way to get them is by sweeping the vegetation 

 with a net and picking them out of the net. 



3. The beds of vegetables in any garden will furnish squash 

 bugs and cucumber beetles, and grasshoppers and number- 

 less other pests, together with their young, and the way to 

 get them is with net and cyanide bottle and vials of alcohol, 

 and considerable hand-picking. Specimens, always avail- 

 able. 



4. The shelters under logs, old boards, stones, etc., that 

 have long lain on the ground undisturbed, will furnish cock- 

 roaches, ground beetles, field crickets, moth larvae and 

 pupae, and other terrestrial animals, not insects (such as 

 pill bugs, slugs and millipedes), and the way to get them is by 

 overturning these things and by hand-picking. If the col- 

 lector will turn the shelters back again, later others may 

 collect from the same source. 



5. The sand bank or barren shore will furnish tiger beetles, 

 ant lions, digger wasps, robber flies, and many kinds of bees 

 and flies and beetles, and the way to get them is by energetic 



