124. BEES, WASPS, ETC., OR HYMENOPTERA, 



can make many captures. Some collectors use strong smelling 

 molasses for this purpose, others sugar and water boiled down to a 

 thick sirup. 



Butterflies and moths should be nicely arranged on the setting- 

 board by inserting a pin in the middle of the thorax, spreading the 

 wings evenly and holding them in their place by means of card- 

 board pinned across them as in Fig. 9. After taking a moth from 

 the setting board, and before placing it in the cabinet, paint the 

 abdomen and thorax with a solution of corrosive sublimate and al- 

 cohol, before mentioned for beetles, in order to keep insects away, 

 for it is on the setting-board that the eggs of Anthrenns or Dcr- 

 mesies are deposited and then afterwards hatched. 



Moths to be packed for transportation should be managed differ- 

 ently from butterflies. To fold the wings back like day butterflies 

 is unnatural, and it compresses the back of the thorax, thereby 

 destroying much of the beauty. The box in which they are to be 

 placed shoulfl^be lined with cork at the bottom. Each moth 

 should be put on a pin and this forced into the cork with for- 

 cepts, through, even to the wood of the box, to hold them secuie- 

 ly. The larger moths should have the abdomen secured by a little 

 cotton drawn over it and fastened by pins forced into the bottom 

 of the box. 



Dragon Flies are to be found flying over ihe fields and meadows, 

 but are most abundant in the immediate vicinity of water. On ac- 

 count of their quick motions they are somewhat difiicult to catch 

 with the net. They can be best killed with the use of the Cyanide 

 Bottle. They should be pinned through the center of the thorax 

 and the wings spread on the setting-board with the legs arranged 

 in the proper manner. The larv?e of almost all these insects are 

 aquatic. They emerge from the water perfect insects. The larvae 

 can be preserved in alcohol. 



Bees, wasps, ichneumon flies, gall flies and saw flies or Hymen- 

 optera are to be found in abundance everywhere in the fields and 

 woods. They should be pinned through the thorax, high up on 

 the pin, with the wings and legs nicely adjusted. 



It is best to capture these fierce insects with the tweezers to avoid 



