36 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



they are made for this purpose. The German pins 

 come in several sizes and are longer than our 

 ordinary pins but not so thick. Professional bug 

 hunters or, to use their chosen name, entomologists, 

 use the professional pin and No. 1 can be used for 

 minute specimens, little teeny-weeny bugs, gnats 

 and so forth, but even then it is sometimes neces- 

 sary to gum the little creatures on a piece of paper, 

 so small are they, and then run the pin through 

 the paper. If these German insect pins are out of 

 your reach, use fine needles or even broom straws 

 for your small insects and ordinary pins for the 

 others. 



EQUIPMENT 



The next thing necessary in the preparation 

 for your campaign as a collector, is to make drying 

 boards (Figs. 19-24). When the writer was a 

 small boy, he made drying boards for himself, and 

 no doubt his readers can do the same. In a pinch, 

 a stiff piece of writing paper (Fig. 19) may be 

 pressed into service as a drying board. 



When everything is ready to receive the cap- 

 tives, you must prepare some nets (Fig. 27) with 

 which to catch the butterflies, grasshoppers and 



