HOW TO CATCH AND KILL INSECTS. IS 
The writer uses for this purpose a quart jar (Mason 
jar) having a cover which screws on. 
3. The pins are for fastening the insects to a box. 
4. Empty cigar-boxes are to receive the dead 
specimens. 
6. The alcohol or formaldehyde is for preserv¬ 
ing soft specimens. The gasoline is used to kill 
insects quickly, also for ridding cases of insect pests. 
A few drops of gasoline or naphtha sprinkled on an 
insect will kill it immediately. Care should be ex¬ 
ercised in killing insects in this way for the death 
agony causes certain insects, as butterflies and moths, 
to pull their wings in front or below the body. 
