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beating the long grass and low herbage that 

 would otherwise be passed by unnoticed. Occa- 

 sionally it may be found advantageous to photo- 

 graph dead specimens, and under such conditions 

 the vertical 

 stand, spoken 

 of in Chap- 

 ter V, will be 

 most conven- 

 ient. I am 

 never an advo- 

 cate of the use 

 of dead speci- 

 mens, how- 

 ever, except in 

 such few, ex- 

 ceptional cases 

 when it is ab- 

 solutely neces- 

 sary to do so in 

 order to illus- 



Moths Asleep in Daytime. 



trate more 



clearly some particular point. The real value in 

 all nature work lies in the fact that the products 

 represent the subject exactly as it was in life, and 

 this can never be so if it is photographed dead. 



Of course the Lepidoptera (the butterflies and 

 moths), among which are some of our largest 

 insects, prove the most interesting subjects, and 



