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ago. I am only nineteen years old and began entomological 
work July 15th, 1912, but in eleven weeks last year I caught, 
bred and sold to Dr. William Barnes of Decatur, Illinois, eleven 
thousand five hundred specimens. 
All the moths and about one-half of the species of butterflies 
will oviposit in boxes and bags and many kinds do not even 
require food. If the imprisoned female demands food, place 
daily in her prison house a bit of dried apple soaked in water 
sweetened with honey. With the varieties mentioned there is 
no other work or worry. Larve and pupe resulting from the 
eggs thus obtained will be safe from the ravages of parasites, 
and the method of rearing them is fully described in the books. 
What the books do not tell is that with these varieties there is 
no trouble in getting eggs. The entire story may be told thus: 
Put your unsalable females in paper boxes and bags and feed 
them if necessary. 
About half the species of butterflies require the presence of 
the living plant upon which their larve feed else they will die 
without laying eggs. W. H. Edwards confined them in nail 
kegs covered with gauze and placed over the plant. Ordinary 
paper bags tied over sprays of the living plant are less cum- 
bersome and fully as satisfactory. It is necessary, however, to 
know the foodplant. I have printed charts of all the known 
foodplants of butterflies and moths, and will send them postage 
paid to any person interested, upon application. I want addi- 
tions and corrections for future, perfected charts. It is my 
aim to sometime produce perfect lists of foodplants for all 
Lepidoptera and I shall certainly fail if collectors and scien- 
tists do not assist me. 
If you do not know the foodplant of the larve which hatch 
from the eggs of a given female, you at least know it grows in 
the locality where you found the female. If you discover the 
foodplant you have added an atom to scientific knowledge. 
Place on the tin lid of an inverted jelly glass the newly hatched 
larve and narrow slices of twenty different leaves. If they eat 
any given leaf you have found a foodplant which will answer 
temporarily, but it is well to introduce another and another 
