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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
E. INVERTEBRATES 
(Either of the following:) 
a. Insects and Spiders 
1. How may mosquitoes be exterminated? 
2. Collect, preserve and identify ten butterflies, five moths, ten other 
insects, and three spiders. 
3. Describe the habit that certain ants have of caring: for plant-lice 
or aphids which secrete honey-dew. 
4. Describe the life-liistory of one of our solitary wasps. (See 
“Wasps Social and Solitary,” by George W. and Elizabeth G. 
Peckham; Houghton Mifflin Co.) 
5. Describe the life of a hive or colony of honey-bees. (See “The 
Life of the Bee,” by Maurice Maeterlinck, Dodd Mead Co.) 
b. Sea Shore Life 
1. Name five invertebrates used as food and state where they ara 
found. 
2. What is the food of the starfish? How are starfish destroyed? 
3. Name twenty invertebrates which you have seen and give the 
locality where they were found. 
4. Name five invertebrates that live in the water only and five that 
burrow in the mud or sand. 
5. What invertebrate was eaten by the Indians and its shell used in 
making: wampum? Where have you seen this animal? 
GENERAL REFERENCES 
A. MAMMALS 
“Life-Histories of Northern Animals,” 2 vols., Ernest Thompson 
Seton, Scribner. 
“American Animals,” Stone, Witmer, and Wm. E. Cram, Doubleday 
Page. 
“American Natural History, Vol. 1, Mammals,” Wm. T. Hornaday, 
Scribner. 
“Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers,” John Burroughs, Houghton 
Mifflin. 
“Kindred of the Wild,” C. G. D. Roberts, Doubleday Page. 
“Animals, Their Relation and Use To Man,” C. D. Wood, Ginn 
and Co. 
“Popular Natural History,” J. G. Wood, Winston. 
B. REPTILES 
“Reptile Book,” Raymond L. Ditmars, Doubleday Page. 
“The Poisonous Snakes of North America,” Leonhard Stejnegar, 
Report U. S. National Museum, 1893. 
C. AMPHIBIANS 
“The Frog Book,” Mary Cynthia Dickerson, Doubleday Page. 
“Manual of Vertebrates of the Northern United States,” David 
Starr Jordan, A. C. McClurg Pub. Co. 
“Nature Study and Life,” Clifton F. Hodge, Ginn and Co. 
D. FISHES 
“American Food and Game Fishes,” David Starr Jordan and Barton 
W. Evermann, Doubleday Page. 
“The Care of Home Aquaria,” Raymond C. Osburn, New York 
Zoological Society. 
“The Story of the Fishes/* James Newton Baskett, D. Appleton 
and Co. 
