INSECTS 



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At night a light set behind a white sheet or thrown on a white 

 wall will attract many insects. 



Insects live in all sorts of places. Hunt for them on leaves of 

 trees and bushes, on flowers of all kinds, on and under rotten 

 fruits, under loose bark of dead trees, in rotten stumps and 

 logs, under stones, and in water. About the only place where 

 you will not find living insects is in the sea, but after a few days 

 of off-shore breeze plenty of dead ones will wash ashore at high 







Fig. 43. — Folding a triangle to preserve insects. 



tide in a neat row on the beach. Collecting is often good under 

 the ridge of seaweed usually found at this line. 



Kill fragile insects (butterflies, moths, and mosquitoes) and 

 hairy kinds (bumblebees and flies) in cyanide; others are best 

 put directly in fluid. 



Remove specimens killed in cyanide from the killing bottle 

 soon after they are dead. Place them then in paper triangles 

 for storage and shipping (see fig. 43 for method of making tri- 

 angles). For the larger butterflies and moths put only one in a 

 triangle; other less fragile kinds may be placed several together. 



Write on the triangle before folding where and when each 

 specimen was collected, the date, and the collector's name. Do 



