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who never forget his mistakes. He may find himself Hving among people who 

 are convinced that anyone, who devotes his life to the study of insignificant 

 creatures such as insects, must be queer. I know of one young entomologist, a 

 close friend of mine, a youth with a hyper-sensitive soul, who was stationed in 

 a small town in one of the apple growing districts of Ontario. About a week 

 after he arrived in town, practically everyone knew him, not because he was par- 

 ticularly attractive or genial and sociable, but simply because he was a bug man. 

 If he had been a bank clerk or anything other than an entomologist, he would 

 have received little or no notice except possibly from flappers and their mothers, 

 but because he was a bugman he very shortly had as much notoriety as one of 

 Barnum-Bailey's freaks. In conversing with him everyone in town felt it 

 necessary to introduce the subject of bugs. During hot weather he was usually 

 greeted with — "Well Professor, this is great weather for hatching bugs." On 

 wet days the greeting was changed to — "Well Professor this rain must have des- 

 troyed lots of bugs." Brought up in polite society in the Old Country where 

 moths, butterflies, flies, etc., were designated insects, and where the term "bug", 

 never mentioned above a whisper, was applied almost wholly to that disreputa- 

 ble creature Cimex lecturlarius, he being a sensitive youth, naturally detested 

 the name bugman. It made his very soul writhe when he was introduced to 



some interesting damsel as Mr , the bug man, and when he noticed 



her stare of astonishment which was invariably followed by a half suppressed 

 giggle. Some of his friends were even ashamed of his profession and usually 



introduced him as "Mr who works and investigates in orchards 



you know." The only thing that made life possible for him was to get out 

 among the fruit growers who appreciated the value of entomological work, and 

 who looked on him as being more or less a normal, human being. Every story 

 should have a happy ending, and this one has. In time this young man became 

 hardened and finally reached the stage where he called all insects bugs and even 

 referred to himself as a bugman. 



His Workshop and Tools 



The entomological laboratory should preferably be located in close proxi- 

 mity to fruit farms, so that the entomologist will be able almost literally to 

 step out of the laboratory into the orchard. Situated in this way, living as it 

 were in a horticultural atmosphere, he is not apt to become so wrapped up in the 

 insect as to forget the orchard. 



1 shall not attempt to describe or even to list here laboratory equipment, as 

 this sort of information can be readily secured from catalogues of supplies, and as 

 the amount and kind used by the orchard entomologist vary considerably, 

 depending on the nature of the investigations being undertaken, and still more 

 on the funds available for buying supplies. Such equipment as a library or the 

 nucleus of a library, compound and binocular microscopes, equipment for 



