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PHOTOGRAPHS OF INSECTS 



It is hardly necessary to say that insects in all their stages offer 

 excellent subjects for the nature photographer. It would be 

 extremely hard to get a more beautiful or interesting picture than 

 that which forms the frontispiece to Mr Eichard Kearton's latest 

 book.^ The photograph alluded to shows two common white butter- 

 Hies roosting on a head of nap-weed, and their bodies, antennae, as 

 well as the florets of the head, are covered all over with tiny beadlets 

 of dew. 



COLLECTIONS OF INSECTS 



We have elsewhere urged that the student who has a taste for 

 collecting should choose some more obscure creatures than butter- 

 flies and moths, for if he does not, he will be liable to be condemned 

 by many. Without going into the inconsistencies of so-called 

 humanitarians, it may be well to point out that there is a reason for 

 this. Butterflies, at any rate, are beautiful, and to destroy them 

 unnecessarily means to deprive others of the pleasure of seeing them. 

 By breeding insects and rearing their caterpillars himself, the 

 collector can to some extent avoid lessening the already small 

 number of many of the insects in question, and at the same time 

 obtain quite perfect specimens for his cabinet. 



* " Wild Nature's Ways." Cassell & Co. Price 10s. 6d. 



