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Identifier: americaninsects00kellog (find matches)
Title: American insects
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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be carried uncoveredif possible, and they should be broad and shallow rather than narrow anddeep. Do not try to bring too many water-insects back in one jar; crowd-ing is always fatal to them. With log-burrowing grubs and larvae bring insome chips and dust of the home log; with underground larvae bring insome soil. Simply because you find such larvae in a certain place is sufficientproof that their surroundings are of the right sort for them. Collecting and Rearing Insects 641 When brought home the live specimens must be transferred to cage or rearing-boxes or jars in which proper food is kept and winch enables 1 n cf to live as nearly as possible in its normal way We want our ca en 1 as not merely .0 provide us with fine unrubbed fresh moths and butterflies for our collection, but want them to go through under our eybu ,10 , ,. . ftem ^ an(J crawl and moult tTspT n - oL. We wish to get acquainted with the details oftheir living; to watch them grow and develop; and to see them drsplay
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Fio. 807.-Breedmg-c.age. (After Packard.) their instincts and insect wits. We may go .„£ in^—c™ty aS^bVlr7dtrrCdrist:etedr less/hea. or cold; totoward light and darkness, tow. inherited instincts to the extent see if they may be induced to ™d^e^~* t0 see if their of doing new and ungual .***£?*% ge^aJiid way somethingttttSZZZZS memory ano choice play so important 1 Pplrticular,y available and in,erestmg kir%£££££££%^t^^^SSo^tue larv. honey-bees 642 Collecting and Rearing Insects and ants, and many still-water insects, as water-beetles and bugs, mosquitoes,May-flies, dragon-flies, etc. For these various kinds of insects with theirvarious kinds of habitat and habit several different kinds of cages are neces-sary. For moths and butterfly larvae very simple cages are sufficient. It isonly necessary that they admit light and air, that they keep the insects in,and that food, green leaves of the favorite food-plant, may be kept freshin them, or readily repeatedly supplied. F

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