Guide to Taxidermy 



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CHAP. 8 



Collecting and Mounting Butter- 

 flies and Moths 



A taxidermist is siipj^osed to. and should, know 

 how to mount anything that may be brought to 

 him. 



Few collectors confine themselves to just one 

 branch ; they should be familiar -with the members 

 of other branches and know what to collect and 

 how to preserve anything they may come across. 

 So a few words relatives to the collecting and 

 mounting of various kinds of insects will not be 

 amiss in this volume. 



Butterflies and moths form very beautiful and 

 interesting collections. Of course they are very 

 fragile and. until improvements within recent years, 

 the caring for a collection has been a trying job. 



Now with the Denton and Riker mounts, they 

 can be collected with the assurance that they will 

 be safe from the ravages of insects and from break- 

 age. 



Collecting 



We will not go into extensive discussion of the 

 many methods by which insects can be caught. The 



