194 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



intensely interesting and valuable material, there 

 should be so few workers. While our books on 

 animal and bird life are now profusely illustrated 

 with excellent photographs of that life, those on 

 insects still continue to use the old-style drawings, 

 or, at the best, photographs from dead specimens. 

 We seldom see anything but an occasional pho- 

 tograph of a 

 moth or but- 

 terfly, and yet 

 there is no rea- 

 son why the 

 photographs of 

 insect life 

 should not be 

 just as plenti- 

 ful and as good 

 as are those in any other branch of natural 

 history. 



Of course, to do the best work possible in this 

 branch, one should be something of an entomolo- 

 gist ; but this knowledge will come, without any 

 tedious studying, after one has taken up the pur- 

 suit of the insects with a camera. It is well to 

 know, however, something of the habits of your 

 subjects before you begin, else you will be at a 

 loss where and when to look for them. This 

 knowing where to look is rather necessary if one 

 would be entirely successful in his quest of them, 



Mourning-cloak Butterfly. 



