you have turned your light upon the tree do not shift the rays away until you 

 have finished, else the change from light to darkness may startle the wary 

 watchers. It is a fact that some varieties of moths get stupidly drunk and it 

 is no fun at all to take them, but to capture the really desirable species requires 

 skill and adroitness and is great sport. 



THE SUGARING OUTFIT. 



Your sugaring outfit consists of cyanide bottles, a lamp, a pair of small 

 forceps and plenty of small paper boxes and paper bags. Bags are very 

 cheap, and are even better than boxes,, but they are more cumbersome. Use 

 ordinary paper bags such as the grocers employ, the large ones for large 

 moths and the smaller sizes for small specimens. Simply distend the bag, put 

 in the fly, and fold the edges tightly with two or three folds, leaving the bag 

 still distended. These bags are for the battered, unsalable females, and in them 

 they will lay their eggs. Carry a supply whenever you are collecting, day or 

 night. They occupy little space when folded, and you distend them only as 

 you use them. A bulls-eye lantern, or any kind of a lantern for that matter, 

 will answer your purpose. The light shows you where the moths are and blinds 

 and confuses them. Electric flash lights, such as officers use, are ideal, but 

 the lamps and batteries must be renewed frequently and so they are too ex- 

 pensive. A "Baldwin Miner's Lamp," costing two dollars, is the best thing 

 extant. It burns carbide, or acetylene gas, and the carbide can be bought in 

 ten-pound cans for ten cents a pound, or in three-pound cans for fifteen cents. 

 Fill the carbide receptacle half full, and when you wish to light the lamp fill 

 the water reservoir. You may have a little bother to learn to use the lamps, 

 but a beautiful light is obtained, and they are safe and easily handled. Braun- 

 Knecht-Heimann Co. sell lamps and carbide. Their address is 576 Mission 

 Street, San Francisco. Automobile supply houses, everywhere, keep these 

 lamps. Have as many cyanide bottles as you can conveniently carry. An 

 ordinary hunting coat with numerous large pockets is a valuable addition to 

 your outfit, but a bag swung from a strap over your shoulder will answer. 

 To spread the sugaring mixture upon the trees you will need a painter's brush, 

 a whisk broom, or better still a small white-wash brush with the handle stuck 

 in the back of the brush. 



THE BEST SUGARING MIXTURE. 



My favorite formula for a sugaring mixture is one quart of stale lager 

 beer, one quart dark brown sugar, half pint Jamaica rum; stir well. This 

 was the mixture used by Harry Edwards and the old-time entomologists. I do 

 not pretend that it is the best preparation known, for nearly every collector has 

 a formula of his own. I would esteem it a great favor if scientists would tell 

 me their favorite formulas. W. J. Holland gives: "Four pounds cheap sugar, 

 bottle stale beer, a little rum. Stir well." Herman Strecker writes: "Rum 

 and sugar, or beer and sugar mixed to the consistency of syrup." Stale beer, 

 especially steam beer, soon turns into vinegar and is worthless. Until it sours 

 steam beer will answer. There is always some lager beer left in kegs after all 

 that is salable has been drawn out, and by getting this, your beer costs nothing. 

 If no beer is sold in your vicinity and you cannot secure the stale article, 

 draw fresh beer and let it stand at least twenty-four hours before using. 

 Your mixture is better if it is several days old, but may be used as soon 



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